Paper 2018/919

Registration-Based Encryption: Removing Private-Key Generator from IBE

Sanjam Garg, Mohammad Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahmoody, and Ahmadreza Rahimi

Abstract

In this work, we introduce the notion of registration-based encryption (RBE for short) with the goal of removing the trust parties need to place in the private-key generator in an IBE scheme. In an RBE scheme, users sample their own public and secret keys. There will also be a ``key curator'' whose job is only to aggregate the public keys of all the registered users and update the short public parameter whenever a new user joins the system. Encryption can still be performed to a particular ecipient using the recipient's identity and any public parameters released subsequent to the recipient's registration. Decryption requires some auxiliary information connecting users' public (and secret) keys to the public parameters. Because of this, as the public parameters get updated, a decryptor may need to obtain a few additional auxiliary information for decryption. More formally, if $n$ is the total number of identities and $\kappa$ is the security parameter, we require the following. Efficiency requirements: (1) A decryptor only needs to obtain updated auxiliary information for decryption at most $O(\log n)$ times in its lifetime, (2) each of these updates are computed by the key curator in time $poly(\kappa,\log n)$, and (3) the key curator updates the public parameter upon the registration of a new party in time $poly(\kappa,\log n)$. Properties (2) and (3) require the key curator to have \emph{random} access to its data. Compactness requirements: (1) Public parameters are always at most $poly(\kappa,\log n)$ bit, and (2) the total size of updates a user ever needs for decryption is also at most $poly(\kappa,\log n)$ bits. We present feasibility results for constructions of RBE based on indistinguishably obfuscation. We further provide constructions of \emph{weakly efficient} RBE, in which the registration step is done in $poly(\kappa, n)$, based on CDH, Factoring or LWE assumptions. Note that registration is done only once per identity, and the more frequent operation of generating updates for a user, which can happen more times, still runs in time $poly(\kappa,\log n)$. We leave open the problem of obtaining standard RBE (with $poly(\kappa,\log n)$ registration time) from standard assumptions.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in TCC 2018
Keywords
identity-based encryptionkey escrow
Contact author(s)
mohammad @ virginia edu
History
2018-10-02: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2018/919
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/919,
      author = {Sanjam Garg and Mohammad Hajiabadi and Mohammad Mahmoody and Ahmadreza Rahimi},
      title = {Registration-Based Encryption: Removing Private-Key Generator from {IBE}},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/919},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/919}
}
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