Paper 2004/258
Escrow-Free Encryption Supporting Cryptographic Workflow
S. S. Al-Riyami, J. Malone-Lee, and N. P. Smart
Abstract
Since Boneh and Franklin published their seminal paper on identity based encryption (IBE) using the Weil pairing , there has been a great deal of interest in cryptographic primitives based on elliptic-curve pairings. One particularly interesting application has been to control access to data, via possibly complex policies. In this paper we continue the research in this vein. We present an encryption scheme such that the receiver of an encrypted message can only decrypt if it satisfies a particular policy chosen by the sender at the time of encryption. Unlike standard IBE, our encryption scheme is escrow free in that no key-issuing authority (or colluding set of key-issuing authorities) is able to decrypt ciphertexts itself. In addition we describe a security model for the scenario in question and provide proofs of security for our scheme (in the random oracle model).
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
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- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- pairings
- Contact author(s)
- nigel @ cs bris ac uk
- History
- 2005-05-05: last of 2 revisions
- 2004-10-08: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2004/258
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/258,
author = {S. S. Al-Riyami and J. Malone-Lee and N. P. Smart},
title = {Escrow-Free Encryption Supporting Cryptographic Workflow},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2004/258},
year = {2004},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/258}
}
