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Blockchain Access Control Scheme Based on Multi-authority Attribute-Based Encryption

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Data Science (ICPCSEE 2022)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 1629))

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Blockchain has been widely used in many fields because it can solve the problem of information asymmetry and enable users who do not trust each other to collaborate without the participation of third-party intermediaries. Existing blockchain access control schemes usually use attribute-based encryption, but most of them adopt traditional single-attribute authority for attribute authorization, which has the problem that the authority is overburdened and must be fully credible. This paper proposes a blockchain access control scheme based on multi-authority attribute-based encryption by improving the existing blockchain privacy protection method. Autonomous identity management is performed through the blockchain to complete the initialization of user identity and the issuance of attribute certificates. Attribute authorities are selected using the reputation proof consensus mechanism. The distributed key generation protocol is used to generate keys, and the linear secret sharing scheme is improved. The hierarchical relationship of the access structure is used to encrypt and access control the private data that need to be uploaded to the blockchain. According to the comparison with other blockchain access control schemes, the scheme proposed in this paper has been improved in terms of security and efficiency.

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This work is supported by the Emerging Interdisciplinary Project of CUFE, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61906220) and Ministry of Education of Humanities and Social Science project (No. 19YJCZH178).

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  1. School of Information, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 100081, China

    Yang Li, Mengmeng Wang, Jianming Zhu & Xiuli Wang

  2. Engineering Research Center of State Financial Security, Ministry of Education, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing, 102206, China

    Yang Li, Jianming Zhu & Xiuli Wang

  3. Computer Science Department, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC16BT, UK

    Baoyue Qi

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Li, Y., Qi, B., Wang, M., Zhu, J., Wang, X. (2022). Blockchain Access Control Scheme Based on Multi-authority Attribute-Based Encryption. In: Wang, Y., Zhu, G., Han, Q., Zhang, L., Song, X., Lu, Z. (eds) Data Science. ICPCSEE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1629. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5209-8_8

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