Paper 2017/1101

HIR-CP-ABE: Hierarchical Identity Revocable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption for Secure and Flexible Data Sharing

Qiuxiang Dong, Dijiang Huang, Jim Luo, and Myong Kang

Abstract

Ciphertext Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP- ABE) has been proposed to implement the attribute-based access control model. In CP-ABE, data owners encrypt the data with a certain access policy such that only data users whose attributes satisfy the access policy could obtain the corresponding private decryption key from a trusted authority. Therefore, CP-ABE is considered as a promising fine-grained access control mechanism for data sharing where no centralized trusted third party exists, for example, cloud computing, mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, information centric networks (ICN), etc.. As promising as it is, user revocation is a cumbersome problem in CP-ABE, thus impeding its application in practice. To solve this problem, we propose a new scheme named HIR-CP-ABE, which implements hierarchical identity- based user revocation from the perceptive of encryption. In particular, the revocation is implemented by data owners directly without any help from any third party. Compared with previous attribute-based revocation solutions, our scheme provides the following nice properties. First, the trusted authority could be offline after system setup and key distribution, thus making it applicable in mobile ad hoc networks, P2P networks, etc., where the nodes in the network are unable to connect to the trusted authority after system deployment. Second, a user does not need to update the private key when user revocation occurs. Therefore, key management overhead is much lower in HIR-CP-ABE for both the users and the trusted authority. Third, the revocation mechanism enables to revoke a group of users affiliated with the same organization in a batch without influencing any other users. To the best of our knowledge, HIR-CP-ABE is the first CP-ABE scheme to provide affiliation-based revocation functionality for data owners. Through security analysis and performance evaluation, we show that the proposed scheme is secure and efficient in terms of computation, communication and storage.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Attribute-Based Access ControlEncryptionCP-ABERevocationHierarchical Identity
Contact author(s)
qiuxiang dong @ asu edu
History
2017-11-29: revised
2017-11-15: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/1101
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/1101,
      author = {Qiuxiang Dong and Dijiang Huang and Jim Luo and Myong Kang},
      title = {HIR-CP-ABE: Hierarchical Identity Revocable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption for Secure and Flexible Data Sharing},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/1101},
      year = {2017},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1101}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1101}
}
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