Verifiable Attribute-based Encryption

Qiang Tang; Dongyao Ji

Paper 2007/461

Verifiable Attribute-based Encryption

Qiang Tang and Dongyao Ji

Abstract

In this paper,we construct two veriable attribute-based encryption(VABE)schemes.One is with a single authority,and the other is with multi authorities.Not only our schemes are proved secure as the previous ABE schemes,they also provide a verication property.Adding the verication property has a few advantages:first,it allows the user to immediately check the correctness of the keys,if not,he only needs the authority to resend the corresponding shares,especially,in multi-authoritycase,if the key does not pass the check,the user only needs to ask the particular authority to resend its own part,without need to go to all the authorities,this saves a lot of time when error appears;second,if the keys pass the verication but the user still does not rightly decrypt out the message,something might be wrong with the attributes or ciphertexts,then,the user has to contact with the encryptor.We formalize the notion of VABE and prove our schemes in our model.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Contact author(s): qtang84 @ gmail com
History: 2008-07-11: last of 8 revisions; 2007-12-11: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2007/461
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/461,
      author = {Qiang Tang and Dongyao Ji},
      title = {Verifiable Attribute-based Encryption},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/461},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/461}
}