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IWSEC 2006: Advances in Information and Computer Security pp 292–307Cite as

Chosen Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption Without Strong Condition

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Recently, Canetti et al [11] gave a generic construction (called CHK construction) of public key encryption (PKE) from a selective identity-based encryption scheme combined with a strong one-time signature scheme. Later, few schemes were proposed to improve the efficiency of CHK construction [11], for example, Boneh-Katz scheme [8] replaced a strong one-time signature with a message authentication code and Boyen-Mei-Waters scheme [9] was constructed directly from Waters’ IBE scheme. But, both constructions have either trade-off the publicly verifiable property or security against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack. We ask a question whether it is possible to construct an efficient and publicly verifiable PKE scheme from a selective IBE scheme with a weak one-time signature scheme. In this paper, we provide an affirmative answer and construct a public key encryption scheme which preserves the publicly verifiable property and is secure against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack. The construction of the proposed scheme is based on Boneh-Boyen identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme [5] and a weak one-time signature scheme (using Waters’ signature scheme [24]) built within Boneh-Boyen IBE scheme. In this construction, one-time signature scheme is not required to be strongly existential unforgeable as Waters’ signature scheme is not a strongly existential unforgeability. We also show that the proposed scheme is ”almost” as efficient as the original Boneh-Boyen IBE scheme.

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    Chik How Tan

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  1. Faculty of Electro-Communication, The University of Electro-Communications, 1-5-1, Chofugaoka, P.O. Box, 182-8585, Chofu, Japan

    Hiroshi Yoshiura

  2. Department of Computer Science, Communication Engineering, Kyushu University, 812-0053, Fukuoka, Japan

    Kouichi Sakurai

  3. Institute of Business Informatics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

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  4. Faculty of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52 Sugo, Takizawa, Takizawa-mura, 020-0193, Iwate, Japan

    Yuko Murayama

  5. Toshiba Corporation, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, P.O. Box, 212-8582, Kawasaki, Japan

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Tan, C.H. (2006). Chosen Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption Without Strong Condition. In: Yoshiura, H., Sakurai, K., Rannenberg, K., Murayama, Y., Kawamura, S. (eds) Advances in Information and Computer Security. IWSEC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4266. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11908739_21

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