Paper 2011/463
Decentralized Dynamic Broadcast Encryption
Duong Hieu Phan, David Pointcheval, and Mario Strefler
Abstract
A broadcast encryption system generally involves three kinds of entities: the group manager that deals with the membership, the encryptor that encrypts the data to the registered users according to a specific policy (the target set), and the users that decrypt the data if they are authorized by the policy. Public-key broadcast encryption can be seen as removing this special role of encryptor, by allowing anybody to send encrypted data. In this paper, we go a step further in the decentralization process, by removing the group manager: the initial setup of the group, as well as the addition of further members to the system, do not require any central authority. Our construction makes black-box use of well-known primitives and can be considered as an extension to the subset-cover framework. It allows for efficient concrete instantiations, with parameter sizes that match those of the subset-cover constructions, while at the same time achieving the highest security level in the standard model under the DDH assumption.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. An extended abstract appeared at SCN 2012.
- Keywords
- Dynamic Broadcast EncryptionAdaptive SecurityCCA2Standard Model
- Contact author(s)
- strefler @ di ens fr
- History
- 2012-09-03: revised
- 2011-08-29: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2011/463
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/463,
author = {Duong Hieu Phan and David Pointcheval and Mario Strefler},
title = {Decentralized Dynamic Broadcast Encryption},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/463},
year = {2011},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/463}
}
