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Unbounded Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption with Efficient Revocation

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Information Security Applications (WISA 2015)

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Hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) is an extension of identity-based encryption (IBE) where an identity of a user is organized as a hierarchical structure and a user can delegate the private key generation to another user. Providing a revocation mechanism for HIBE is highly necessary to keep a system securely. Revocable HIBE (RHIBE) is an HIBE scheme that can revoke a user’s private key if his credential is expired or revealed. In this paper, we first propose an unbounded HIBE scheme where the maximum hierarchy depth is not limited and prove its selective security under a q-type assumption. Next, we propose an efficient unbounded RHIBE scheme by combining our unbounded HIBE scheme and a binary tree structure, and then we prove its selective security. By presenting the unbounded RHIBE scheme, we solve the open problem of Seo and Emura in CT-RSA 2015.

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This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korea government (MEST) (No. 2010-0029121). The first two authors (Geumsook Ryu and Kwangsu Lee) equally contributed to this work.

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Ryu, G., Lee, K., Park, S., Lee, D.H. (2016). Unbounded Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption with Efficient Revocation. In: Kim, Hw., Choi, D. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9503. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31875-2_11

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