Paper 2011/523

Security analysis of a fuzzy identity-based encryption scheme

Miaomiao Tian, Liusheng Huang, and Wei Yang

Abstract

A fuzzy identity-based encryption scheme allows a ciphertext encrypted under an identity $I{D}^{\ast }$ to be decrypted using a secret key corresponding to the identity $ID$ which is close to $I{D}^{\ast }$ as measured by some metric. Recently, Ren et al. proposed a new fuzzy identity-based encryption scheme and proved that it is fully chosen-ciphertext secure in the standard model. However, in this paper, we will show that their fuzzy identity-based encryption scheme is even not chosen-plaintext secure.