### Yet Another Attack On the Chinese Remainder Theorem Based Hierarchical Access Control Scheme

Niu Liu, Shaohua Tang, and Lingling Xu

##### Abstract

The hierarchical access control scheme based on Chinese Reminder Theorem [49] (CRTHACS) was supposed to be capable of hiding hierarchical structure, but Geiselmann et al. [18] showed practical attacks on CRTHACS to reveal the hierarchies it hides. Then, Zou et al. modified it, and gave a new CRTHACS [50] to resist those attacks. Nevertheless, we find that the modified version is still defective if it permits changes of structure, i.e. the scheme works in a dynamic scenario. In this paper, we describe our attack on the modified version of CRTHACS. We extend the description of the CRTHACS in a more proper form making it easier for us to look into the problem it has. We find the key character of the vulnerability which we name as double-invariance. We generalize our attack in an algebraic form and apply it to a series of hierarchical cryptographic access control schemes that share the same vulnerability with CRTHACS. We also give the countermeasure to fix this vulnerability.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown status
Keywords
communication securityCRTHACSChinese remainder theoremhierarchical access controlsecure group communication
Contact author(s)
niuliu83 @ gmail com
History
2014-05-21: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/132

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/132,
author = {Niu Liu and Shaohua Tang and Lingling Xu},
title = {Yet Another Attack On the Chinese Remainder Theorem Based Hierarchical Access Control Scheme},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2013/132},
year = {2013},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/132}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/132}
}

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