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Certificateless searchable public key authenticated encryption with designated tester for cloud-assisted medical Internet of Things

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In the past few years, internet of things has been explored in medical area to achieve high efficiency and accuracy in the medical treatment and management. One of the most powerful technologies called the medical Internet of Things (mIoT), is underpinned by the considerable computational ability of cloud and the efficient data collection of medical sensors. As the data is transmitted over open network, security remains a paramount concern in mIoT. Encryption techniques may help to protect patient privacy, but they limit the future retrieval of the encrypted data. To uplift this limitation, public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS) has been introduced. However, most of the existing PEKS schemes are based on public key infrastructure or identity-based cryptography, which suffers from the certificate management issue and key escrow problem in system deployment, respectively. Moreover, inside keyword guessing attack seems to become a severe issue to violate privacy in data search. To address these issues, we present a certificateless searchable public key authenticated encryption scheme with designated tester (CL-dPAEKS), which, we believe, is suitable for cloud-assisted mIoT. We prove that our scheme can resist various types of attacks, and it is more secure than other schemes that built on certificateless cryptography, without significant loss in efficiency.

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  1. Telemedicine, http://www.telemedicine.com/

  2. A certificate authority (CA) issues all users’ digital certificates

  3. All users’ private keys are managed by a key generation center (KGC)

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  1. Computer School, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Libing Wu & Yubo Zhang

  2. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Mimi Ma

  3. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India

    Neeraj Kumar

  4. School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Debiao He

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The work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61472287, Grant 61772377, Grant 61572379, Grant 61501333, Grant 61402339, and Grant U1536204, in part by the National High-Tech Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grant 2015AA016004, in part by the open fund of State Key Laboratory of Cryptology and in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province of China under Grant 2015CFB257, Grant 2015CFA068, Grant 2017CFA007.

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Wu, L., Zhang, Y., Ma, M. et al. Certificateless searchable public key authenticated encryption with designated tester for cloud-assisted medical Internet of Things. Ann. Telecommun. 74, 423–434 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12243-018-00701-7

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