Forward-secure hierarchical IBE with applications to broadcast encryption

Danfeng Yao, Nelly Fazio, Yevgeniy Dodis, Anna Lysyanskaya

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Abstract

A forward-secure encryption scheme protects secret keys from exposure by evolving the keys with time. Forward security has several unique requirements in hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) scheme: (1) users join dynamically; (2) encryption is joining-time-oblivious; (3) users evolve secret keys autonomously. We define and construct a scalable pairing-based forward-secure HIBE (fs-HIBE) scheme satisfying all of the above requirements. We also show how our fs-HIBE scheme can be used to realize a forward-secure public-key broadcast encryption scheme, which protects the secrecy of prior transmissions in the broadcast encryption setting. We further generalize fs-HIBE into a collusion-resistant multiple hierarchical ID-based encryption scheme, which can be used for secure communications with entities having multiple roles in role-based access control. The security of our schemes is based on the bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption in the random oracle model.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationIdentity-Based Cryptography
PublisherIOS Press
Pages100-118
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9781586039479
DOIs
StatePublished - 2009

Publication series

NameCryptology and Information Security Series
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1871-6431
ISSN (Electronic)1879-8101

Keywords

  • Forward security
  • ID-based encryption
  • broadcast encryption

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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