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An Efficient and Privacy Preserving CP-ABE Scheme for Internet-Based Collaboration

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The development of Internet applications facilitates enterprises and individuals to share information and work together across physical barriers. In such environment, flexible and efficient data-protection methods are required because data are out of the control domain of its owners. By encrypting with an access policy, ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) can simultaneously achieve data encryption and access control, making it an ideal mechanism for data protection in Internet-based environments. However, the existing CP-ABE schemes usually have limitations regarding efficiency and privacy leakage from the access policy. In this paper, we propose a CP-ABE scheme with hidden access policy and fast decryption that improves the decryption efficiency and preserves the privacy of the access policy. In addition, by adopting dual-system encryption methodology, our scheme achieves full security, which is a higher security level in CP-ABE. The performance analysis revealed that the comprehensive capability of our scheme outperforms the existing CP-ABE schemes.

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    Full security overcomes the weakness of selective security; i.e., it does not require the attacker to declare the challenged access policy in advance.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 61170088) and the Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment (Grant No. SKLSDE-2015ZX-05).

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Wang, J., Lang, B. (2018). An Efficient and Privacy Preserving CP-ABE Scheme for Internet-Based Collaboration. In: Romdhani, I., Shu, L., Takahiro, H., Zhou, Z., Gordon, T., Zeng, D. (eds) Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing. CollaborateCom 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 252. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00916-8_46

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