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Fully Secure Attribute-Based Systems with Short Ciphertexts/Signatures and Threshold Access Structures

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Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2013 (CT-RSA 2013)

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It has been an appealing but challenging goal in research on attribute-based encryption (ABE) and attribute-based signatures (ABS) to design a secure scheme with short ciphertexts and signatures, respectively. While recent results show that some promising progress has been made in this direction, they do not always offer a satisfactory level of security, i.e. achieving selective rather than full security.

In this paper, we aim to achieve both full security and short ciphertexts/signatures for threshold access structures in the ABE/ABS setting. Towards achieving this goal, we propose generic property-preserving conversions from inner-product systems to attribute-based systems. We first give concrete constructions of fully secure IPE/IPS with constant-size ciphertexts/signatures in the composite order groups. By making use of our IPE/IPS schemes as building blocks, we then present concrete constructions of fully secure key-policy ABE (KP-ABE) and ciphertext-policy ABE (CP-ABE) with constant-size ciphertexts, and a fully secure ABS with constant-size signatures with perfect privacy for threshold access structures. These results give rise to the first constructions satisfying the aforementioned requirements. Our schemes reduce the number of pairing evaluations to a constant, a very attractive property for practical attribute-based systems. Furthermore, we show that our schemes can be extended to support large attribute universes and more expressive access structures.

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    Jie Chen, Hoon Wei Lim, San Ling & Huaxiong Wang

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Chen, C. et al. (2013). Fully Secure Attribute-Based Systems with Short Ciphertexts/Signatures and Threshold Access Structures. In: Dawson, E. (eds) Topics in Cryptology – CT-RSA 2013. CT-RSA 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7779. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36095-4_4

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