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Multi-authority attribute-based encryption scheme with policy semi-hidden and dynamic updating

YAN Xixi1;LIU Yuan1;LI Zichen2;TANG Yongli1   

  1. (1. School of Computer Science and Technology, Henan Polytechnic Univ., Jiaozuo 454003, China;
    2. School of Information Engineering, Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing 102600, China)
  • Received:2017-04-27 Online:2018-04-20 Published:2018-06-06

Abstract:

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a new cryptographic technique which guarantees fine-grained access control of outsourced encrypted data in the cloud. However, privacy revealing and policy updating are the key limitations. Thus, a Multi-Authority attribute-based encryption scheme with policy partially hidden and dynamic updating is proposed. In the scheme, the users' attribute is divided into two parts: the attribute name and the attribute value. The values of the user's attributes are hidden to prevent from revealing to any third parties. In addition, the Linear Secret-Sharing Scheme(LSSS) access structure and policy updating algorithms can support any type of policy updating, and it proves secure against the chosen plaintext attack in the standard model. Compared to the existing related schemes, the size of both users' secret key and ciphertext is reduced, and the lower computing cost makes it more effective in protecting users' attributes and support policy updates.

Key words: attribute based encryption, multi-authority, policy semi-hidden, policy updating