Fully secure multi-authority ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption without random oracles

  • Zhen Liu*
  • , Zhenfu Cao
  • , Qiong Huang
  • , Duncan S. Wong
  • , Tsz Hon Yuen
  • *Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

109 Scopus citations

Abstract

Recently Lewko and Waters proposed the first fully secure multi-authority ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) system in the random oracle model, and leave the construction of a fully secure multi-authority CP-ABE in the standard model as an open problem. Also, there is no CP-ABE system which can completely prevent individual authorities from decrypting ciphertexts. In this paper, we propose a new multi-authority CP-ABE system which addresses these two problems positively. In this new system, there are multiple Central Authorities (CAs) and Attribute Authorities (AAs), the CAs issue identity-related keys to users and are not involved in any attribute related operations, AAs issue attribute-related keys to users and each AA manages a different domain of attributes. The AAs operate independently from each other and do not need to know the existence of other AAs. Messages can be encrypted under any monotone access structure over the entire attribute universe. The system is adaptively secure in the standard model with adaptive authority corruption, and can support large attribute universe.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Security, ESORICS 2011 - 16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages278-297
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783642238215
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2011 - Leuven, Belgium
Duration: 12 Sep 201114 Sep 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6879 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference16th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS 2011
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityLeuven
Period12/09/1114/09/11

Keywords

  • Attribute based encryption
  • ciphertext-policy
  • multi-authority

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Fully secure multi-authority ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption without random oracles'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this