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Although Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE) has been widely applied to protect data in cloud computing, it is always criticized for its inefficiency drawbacks, coming from both key-issuing and decryption. Recently, some papers proposed the outsourcing solutions. But adversaries in the attack model of these researches were divided into two categories, and it is assumed that the two cannot communicate with each other, which is obviously unrealistic. In this paper, we first proved that there are severe security vulnerabilities in these schemes for this assumption, and then proposed a security enhanced Chosen Plaintext Attack (SE-CPA) model, which eliminates the improper limitations. By utilizing Proxy Re-Encryption (PRE), we also constructed a concrete KP-ABE Outsourcing scheme (O-KP-ABE) and proved its security under SE-CPA model. Comparisons with existing schemes show that our construction has comprehensive advantages in security and efficiency.
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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61170088) and Foundation of the State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment (Grant No. SKLSDE-2014ZX-05).
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Li, C., Lang, B., Wang, J. (2015). Outsourced KP-ABE with Enhanced Security. In: Yung, M., Zhu, L., Yang, Y. (eds) Trusted Systems. INTRUST 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27998-5_3
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