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A Lightweight Certificateless Searchable Public Key Encryption Scheme for Medical Internet of Things

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Frontiers in Cyber Security (FCS 2022)

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To ensure the confidentiality of medical data, the medical information is usually encrypted before outsourcing to a third party for processing. Encryption technology can ensure the privacy of data, but it limits the search for data. The problem is usually solved using public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS). Recently, a few certificateless PEKS (CPEKS) schemes have been proposed. However, they rely on the high-consuming bilinear pairing, and some of them are vulnerable to inside keyword guessing attacks (IKGA). To solve these problems, we propose a lightweight CPEKS scheme for the Medical Internet of things (IoMT), which does not contain bilinear pairing. The scheme is proved to be secure in the random oracle model. The analysis results show that it has better comprehensive performance than the existing schemes according to the security property, the computation cost, and the communication cost.

This work is supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of Southwest Minzu University (No: ZYN2022077), the Fund of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security (No: GCIS202121), the Foreign Experts Program of Ministry of Science and Technology of China (No: DL2022186001L), and the Sichuan Science and Technology Program (No: 2021ZYD0021).

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  1. School of Mathematics, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoguang Liu

  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Cryptography and Information Security, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, 541004, Guangxi, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaoguang Liu, Yingying Sun & Hao Dong

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southwest Minzu University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan, People’s Republic of China

    Yingying Sun & Hao Dong

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Liu, X., Sun, Y., Dong, H. (2022). A Lightweight Certificateless Searchable Public Key Encryption Scheme for Medical Internet of Things. In: Ahene, E., Li, F. (eds) Frontiers in Cyber Security. FCS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1726. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8445-7_5

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