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Cryptanalysis and improvements of an anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption scheme

Cryptanalysis and improvements of an anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption scheme

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  • Author(s): H. Wang 1, 2 ; Y. Zhang 3 ; H. Xiong 4 ; B. Qin 2
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    • Affiliations: 1: School of Information Engineering, Dalian Ocean University, People's Republic of China
      2: Department of Computer Engineering and Maths, UNESCO Chair in Data Privacy, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia
      3: National Computer Network Intrusion Protection Center, GUCAS, People's Republic of China
      4: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, People's Republic of China
  • Source: Volume 6, Issue 1, March 2012, p. 20 – 27
    DOI:  10.1049/iet-ifs.2010.0252 , Print ISSN 1751-8709, Online ISSN 1751-8717
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In 2010, Fan et al. presented an anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption scheme where they adopt Lagrange interpolating polynomial mechanism. They showed that their scheme makes it impossible for an attacker or any other message receiver to derive the identity of a message receiver such that the privacy of every receiver can be guaranteed. They also formally showed that every receiver in the proposed scheme is anonymous to any other receiver. In this work, the authors study the security of Fan et al.'s anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption scheme. It is regretful that they found their scheme is insecure. Every receiver in Fan et al.'s scheme is not anonymous to any other receiver. The authors showed that simple protocol changes can fix these weaknesses and render Fan et al.'s scheme. The improved scheme is proved to satisfy the confidentiality and receiver anonymity in the random oracle.

Inspec keywords: cryptographic protocols

Other keywords: receiver privacy; confidentiality; anonymous-multireceiver identity-based encryption scheme; Lagrange interpolating polynomial mechanism; cryptanalysis; message receiver identity; receiver anonymity; protocol

Subjects: Data security; Protocols; Cryptography theory; Cryptography

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