Paper 2020/713

A Generic Construction of Predicate Proxy Key Re-encapsulation Mechanism

Yi-Fan Tseng, Zi-Yuan Liu, and Raylin Tso

Abstract

Proxy re-encryption (PRE), formalized by Blaze et al. in 1998, allows a proxy entity to delegate the decryption right of a ciphertext from one party to another without obtaining the information of the plaintext. In recent years, many studies have explored how to construct PRE schemes that support fine-grained access control for complex application scenarios, such as identity-based PRE and attribute-based PRE. Besides, in order to achieve more flexible access control, the predicate proxy re-encryption (PPRE) is further studied. However, existing PPRE is restricted with the inner product predicate function. Therefore, how to realize the PPRE of arbitrary predicate function is still a problem to be solved. In this manuscript, we propose a secure generic construction of predicate proxy key re-encapsulation mechanism built from a ``linear'' predicate key encapsulation mechanism. Since the secure key encapsulation mechanism can be used as a building block to construct public key encryption, we can obtain a PPRE from our construction. As a result, the results open up new avenues for building more flexible and fine-grained PPRE.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Major revision. AsiaJCIS 2020
Keywords
Predicate encryptionPredicate proxy re-encryptionGeneric constructionSingle-hopUnidirectional
Contact author(s)
zyliu @ cs nccu edu tw
History
2020-06-14: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/713
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/713,
      author = {Yi-Fan Tseng and Zi-Yuan Liu and Raylin Tso},
      title = {A Generic Construction of Predicate Proxy  Key Re-encapsulation Mechanism},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2020/713},
      year = {2020},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/713}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/713}
}
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