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Cryptanalysis on a Secret-Sharing Based Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme

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Condition proxy re-encryption is a promising security primitive for pervasive data sharing in such settings as cloud-based social networks and collaborations. However, it is challenging to create a secure condition proxy re-encryption scheme that is applicable for circumstances with multiple conditions. Based on secret sharing, Lan et al. proposed a conditional proxy re-encryption scheme that can support “AND” and “OR” gates over multiple conditions, and claimed that the scheme is secure against Chosen-Ciphertext Attack (CCA) in the random oracle model. However, by giving two concrete attacks, we show that their scheme is not CCA secure and even not secure against Chosen-Plaintext Attack (CPA) under their defined security model. Furthermore, we analyze why the scheme cannot satisfy the security mentioned above.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61402197, 61472165 and 61272415.

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Sun, Y., Liu, D. Cryptanalysis on a Secret-Sharing Based Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme. Mobile Netw Appl 22, 209–215 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-016-0760-2

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