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How to Construct Multicast Cryptosystems Provably Secure Against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack

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Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2006 (CT-RSA 2006)

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In this paper we present a general framework for constructing efficient multicast cryptosystems with provable security and show that a line of previous work on multicast encryption are all special cases of this general approach. We provide new methods for building such cryptosystems with various levels of security (e.g., IND-CPA, IND-CCA2). The results we obtained enable the construction of a whole class of new multicast schemes with guaranteed security using a broader range of common primitives such as OAEP. Moreover, we show that multicast cryptosystems with high level of security (e.g. IND-CCA2) can be based upon public key cryptosystems with weaker (e.g. CPA) security as long as the decryption can be securely and efficiently “shared”. Our constructions feature truly constant-size decryption keys whereas the lengths of both the encryption key and ciphertext are independent of group size.

This work was supported by National Science Foundation award #EIA-0122599 (Title: “ITR/SI: Societal Scale Information Systems: Technologies, Design, and Applications”).

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Duan, Y., Canny, J. (2006). How to Construct Multicast Cryptosystems Provably Secure Against Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Attack. In: Pointcheval, D. (eds) Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2006. CT-RSA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3860. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11605805_16

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