An efficient KP-ABE with short ciphertexts in prime order groups under standard assumption

Jongkil Kim, Willy Susilo, Fuchun Guo, Man Ho Au, Surya Nepal

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Abstract

We introduce an efficient Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE) scheme in prime order groups. Our scheme is semi-adaptively secure under the decisional linear assumption and supports a large universe of attributes and multi-use of attributes. Those properties are critical for real applications of KP-ABE schemes since they enable an efficient and exible access control. Prior to our work, existing KP-ABE schemes with short ciphertexts were in composite order groups or utilized either Dual Pairing Vector Spaces (DPVS) or Dual System Groups (DSG) in prime order groups. However, those techniques brought an efficiency loss. In this work, we utilize a nested dual system encryp- tion which is a variant of Waters' dual system encryption (Crypto' 09) to achieve semi-adaptively secure KP-ABE. As a result, we obtain a new scheme having better efficiency compared to existing schemes while it keeps a semi-adaptive security under the standard assumption. We implement our scheme and compare its efficiency with the previous best work.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationASIA CCS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages823-834
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349444
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Apr 2017
Event2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2017 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 2 Apr 20176 Apr 2017

Publication series

NameASIA CCS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Conference

Conference2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ASIA CCS 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CityAbu Dhabi
Period2/04/176/04/17

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Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 ACM.

Keywords

  • Attribute based encryption
  • Dual system encryption
  • Prime order groups
  • Short ciphertexts
  • Standard assumption

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