Paper 2009/293
Enhancing Attribute-based Encryption with Attribute Hierarchy
Jin Li, Qian Wang, Cong Wang, and Kui Ren
Abstract
Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been envisioned as a promising cryptographic primitive for realizing secure and flexible access control. However, ABE is being criticized for its high scheme overhead as extensive pairing operations are usually required. In this paper, we focus on improving the efficiency of ABE by leveraging a previously overlooked fact, i.e., the often-found hierarchical relationships among the attributes that are inherent to many access control scenarios. As the first research effort along this direction, we coin the notion of hierarchical ABE (\textsf{HABE}), which can be viewed as the generalization of traditional ABE in the sense that both definitions are equal when all attributes are independent. We further give a concrete \textsf{HABE} construction considering a tree hierarchy among the attributes, which is provably secure. More importantly, our construction exhibits significant improvements over the traditional ABE when attribute hierarchies exist.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
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- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- Attribute-BasedHierarchyEncryptionAccess ControlPairing
- Contact author(s)
- jli25 @ iit edu
- History
- 2009-06-24: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2009/293
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/293,
author = {Jin Li and Qian Wang and Cong Wang and Kui Ren},
title = {Enhancing Attribute-based Encryption with Attribute Hierarchy},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/293},
year = {2009},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/293}
}
