scholarly journals A Survey of Research Progress and Development Tendency of Attribute-Based Encryption

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liaojun Pang ◽  
Jie Yang ◽  
Zhengtao Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Research Progress ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ciphertext Policy ◽  
Development Tendency

With the development of cryptography, the attribute-based encryption (ABE) draws widespread attention of the researchers in recent years. The ABE scheme, which belongs to the public key encryption mechanism, takes attributes as public key and associates them with the ciphertext or the user’s secret key. It is an efficient way to solve open problems in access control scenarios, for example, how to provide data confidentiality and expressive access control at the same time. In this paper, we survey the basic ABE scheme and its two variants: the key-policy ABE (KP-ABE) scheme and the ciphertext-policy ABE (CP-ABE) scheme. We also pay attention to other researches relating to the ABE schemes, including multiauthority, user/attribute revocation, accountability, and proxy reencryption, with an extensive comparison of their functionality and performance. Finally, possible future works and some conclusions are pointed out.

Efficient Attribute-Based Data Sharing Scheme with Hidden Access Structures

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 1748-1760 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Chen ◽  
Wenmin Li ◽  
Fei Gao ◽  
Wei Yin ◽  
Kaitai Liang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Inner Product ◽  
Access Structure ◽  
Online Data ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Access Structures ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Ciphertext Policy

AbstractOnline data sharing has become a research hotspot while cloud computing is getting more and more popular. As a promising encryption technique to guarantee the security shared data and to realize flexible fine-grained access control, ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) has drawn wide attentions. However, there is a drawback preventing CP-ABE from being applied to cloud applications. In CP-ABE, the access structure is included in the ciphertext, and it may disclose user’s privacy. In this paper, we find a more efficient method to connect ABE with inner product encryption and adopt several techniques to ensure the expressiveness of access structure, the efficiency and security of our scheme. We are the first to present a secure, efficient fine-grained access control scheme with hidden access structure, the access structure can be expressed as AND-gates on multi-valued attributes with wildcard. We conceal the entire attribute instead of only its values in the access structure. Besides, our scheme has obvious advantages in efficiency compared with related schemes. Our scheme can make data sharing secure and efficient, which can be verified from the analysis of security and performance.

scholarly journals A Study on CP-ABE-Based Medical Data Sharing System with Key Abuse Prevention and Verifiable Outsourcing in the IoMT Environment

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (17) ◽  
pp. 4934
Author(s):  
Yong-Woon Hwang ◽  
Im-Yeong Lee
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Data Sharing ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Medical Data ◽  
Abuse Prevention ◽  
Cloud Environment ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Security Technologies ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Ciphertext Policy

Recent developments in cloud computing allow data to be securely shared between users. This can be used to improve the quality of life of patients and medical staff in the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) environment. However, in the IoMT cloud environment, there are various security threats to the patient’s medical data. As a result, security features such as encryption of collected data and access control by legitimate users are essential. Many studies have been conducted on access control techniques using ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE), a form of attribute-based encryption, among various security technologies and studies are underway to apply them to the medical field. However, several problems persist. First, as the secret key does not identify the user, the user may maliciously distribute the secret key and such users cannot be tracked. Second, Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) increases the size of the ciphertext depending on the number of attributes specified. This wastes cloud storage, and computational times are high when users decrypt. Such users must employ outsourcing servers. Third, a verification process is needed to prove that the results computed on the outsourcing server are properly computed. This paper focuses on the IoMT environment for a study of a CP-ABE-based medical data sharing system with key abuse prevention and verifiable outsourcing in a cloud environment. The proposed scheme can protect the privacy of user data stored in a cloud environment in the IoMT field, and if there is a problem with the secret key delegated by the user, it can trace a user who first delegated the key. This can prevent the key abuse problem. In addition, this scheme reduces the user’s burden when decoding ciphertext and calculates accurate results through a server that supports constant-sized ciphertext output and verifiable outsourcing technology. The goal of this paper is to propose a system that enables patients and medical staff to share medical data safely and efficiently in an IoMT environment.

Unbounded Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption With Black-Box Traceability

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
yunxiu ye ◽  
Zhenfu Cao ◽  
Jiachen Shen
Keyword(s):  
Control Method ◽  
Black Box ◽  
Broadcast Encryption ◽  
Constant Number ◽  
Malicious User ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Actual Operation ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
And Performance

Abstract Attribute-based encryption received widespread attention as soon as it proposes. However, due to its specific characteristics, the attribute-based access control method is not flexible enough in actual operation. In addition, since access authorities are determined according to users' attributes, users sharing the same attributes are difficult to distinguish. Once a malicious user makes illicit gains by their decryption authorities, it is difficult to trace specific users. This paper follows the practical demand to propose a more flexible key-policy attribute-based encryption scheme with black-box traceability. The scheme has a constant number of constant parameters which can be utilized to construct attribute-related parameters flexibly, and the method of traitor tracing in broadcast encryption is introduced to achieve effective malicious user tracing. In addition, the security and feasibility can be proved by the security proofs and performance evaluation in this paper.

An Attribute-Based Searchable Encryption Scheme for Non-Monotonic Access Structure

2020 ◽  
pp. 263-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mamta ­ ◽  
Brij B. Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Access Control ◽  
Searchable Encryption ◽  
Access Structure ◽  
Encryption Scheme ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Secret Key ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Diffie Hellman ◽  
Attribute Based Encryption ◽  
Encryption Schemes

Attribute based encryption (ABE) is a widely used technique with tremendous application in cloud computing because it provides fine-grained access control capability. Owing to this property, it is emerging as a popular technique in the area of searchable encryption where the fine-grained access control is used to determine the search capabilities of a user. But, in the searchable encryption schemes developed using ABE it is assumed that the access structure is monotonic which contains AND, OR and threshold gates. Many ABE schemes have been developed for non-monotonic access structure which supports NOT gate, but this is the first attempt to develop a searchable encryption scheme for the same. The proposed scheme results in fast search and generates secret key and search token of constant size and also the ciphertext components are quite fewer than the number of attributes involved. The proposed scheme is proven secure against chosen keyword attack (CKA) in selective security model under Decisional Bilinear Diffie-Hellman (DBDH) assumption.

Privacy-Preserving Decentralized Key-Policy Attribute-Based Signcryption in Cloud Computing Environments

2013 ◽  
Vol 475-476 ◽  
pp. 1144-1149
Author(s):  
Xian Yong Meng ◽  
Zhong Chen ◽  
Xiang Yu Meng
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Secret Sharing ◽  
Public Key ◽  
Control Scheme ◽  
Public Keys ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
Computing Environments ◽  
Attribute Based Access Control ◽  
Signcryption Scheme

In this paper, a novel decentralized key-policy attribute-based signcryption (ABS) scheme is proposed, where each authority can generate secret-public key pair for the user independently without any cooperation and a centralized authority. In the proposed scheme, each authority can join or leave the system randomly without reinitializing the system,and issue secret-public keys to user respectively. Therefore, it is clear that the multi-authority attribute-based access control scheme can reduce the communication cost and the collaborative computing cost. Additionally, the attribute-based signcryption scheme is efficient in terms of both the identification authentication and the confidential communication, and can realize security secret sharing in cloud computing environments.

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