### Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption with Constant Size Ciphertext

Dan Boneh, Xavier Boyen, and Eu-Jin Goh

##### Abstract

We present a Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption (HIBE) system where the ciphertext consists of just three group elements and decryption requires only two bilinear map computations, independent of the hierarchy depth. Encryption is as efficient as in other HIBE systems. We prove that the scheme is selective-ID secure in the standard model and fully secure in the random oracle model. Our system has a number of applications: it gives very efficient forward secure public key and identity based cryptosystems (where ciph ertexts are short), it converts the NNL broadcast encryption system into an efficient public key broadcast system, and it provides an efficient mechanism for encrypting to the future. The system also supports limited delegation where users can be given restricted private keys that only allow delegation to certain descendants. Sublinear size private keys can also be achieved at the expense of some ciphertext expansion.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Full version. Proceedings version at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11426639_26
Keywords
Identity Based Encryption
Contact author(s)
eujin @ cs stanford edu
History
2006-01-26: last of 3 revisions
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2005/015

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/015,
author = {Dan Boneh and Xavier Boyen and Eu-Jin Goh},
title = {Hierarchical Identity Based Encryption with Constant Size Ciphertext},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2005/015},
year = {2005},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/015}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/015}
}

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