Paper 2011/543

Adaptively Attribute-Hiding (Hierarchical) Inner Product Encryption

Tatsuaki Okamoto and Katsuyuki Takashima

Abstract

This paper proposes the first inner product encryption (IPE) scheme that is adaptively secure and fully attribute-hiding (attribute-hiding in the sense of the definition by Katz, Sahai and Waters), while the existing IPE schemes are either fully attribute-hiding but selectively secure or adaptively secure but weakly attribute-hiding. The proposed IPE scheme is proven to be adaptively secure and fully attribute-hiding under the decisional linear assumption in the standard model. The IPE scheme is comparably as efficient as the existing attribute-hiding IPE schemes. We also present a variant of the proposed IPE scheme with the same security that achieves shorter public and secret keys. A hierarchical IPE scheme can be constructed that is also adaptively secure and fully attribute-hiding under the same assumption. In this paper, we extend the dual system encryption technique by Waters into a more general manner, in which new forms of ciphertext and secret keys are employed and new types of information theoretical tricks are introduced along with several forms of computational reduction.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. This is the full version of a paper appearing in EUROCRYPT 2012, the 31st International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, April 15-19, 2012, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Keywords
Functional EncryptionPredicate EncryptionAttribute-Hiding
Contact author(s)
Takashima Katsuyuki @ aj mitsubishielectric co jp
History
2012-01-27: last of 5 revisions
2011-10-03: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2011/543
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/543,
      author = {Tatsuaki Okamoto and Katsuyuki Takashima},
      title = {Adaptively Attribute-Hiding (Hierarchical) Inner Product Encryption},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/543},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/543}
}
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