An Efficient Certificateless Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme without Pairing

S. Sharmila Deva Selvi; Arinjita Paul; C.  Pandu Rangan

Paper 2017/768

An Efficient Certificateless Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme without Pairing

S. Sharmila Deva Selvi, Arinjita Paul, and C. Pandu Rangan

Abstract

Proxy re-encryption (PRE) is a cryptographic primitive introduced by Blaze, Bleumer and Strauss to provide delegation of decryption rights. PRE allows re-encryption of a ciphertext intended for Alice (delegator) to a ciphertext for Bob (delegatee) via a semi-honest proxy, who should not learn anything about the underlying message. In 2003, Al-Riyami and Patterson introduced the notion of certificateless public key cryptography which offers the advantage of identity-based cryptography without suffering from the key escrow problem. The existing certificateless PRE (CLPRE) schemes rely on costly bilinear pairing operations. In ACM ASIA-CCS SCC 2015, Srinivasan et al. proposed the first construction of a certificateless PRE scheme without resorting to pairing in the random oracle model. However, in this work, we demonstrate a flaw in the CCA-security proof of their scheme. Also, we present the first construction of a CLPRE scheme without pairing which meets CCA security under the computational Diffie-Hellman hardness assumption in the random oracle model.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Major revision. The 11th International Conference on Provable Security (ProvSec 2017)
Keywords: Proxy Re-Encryption Pairing-less Public Key Certificateless Unidirectional.
Contact author(s): arinjita paul @ gmail com
History: 2017-08-12: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2017/768
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/768,
      author = {S. Sharmila Deva Selvi and Arinjita Paul and C.  Pandu Rangan},
      title = {An Efficient Certificateless Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme without Pairing},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/768},
      year = {2017},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/768}
}