arXiv · 1412.4234
Key-Policy Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption
Abstract
Bilinear groups are often used to create Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) algorithms. In particular, they have been used to create an ABE system with multi authorities, but limited to the ciphertext-policy instance. Here, for the first time, we propose a multi-authority key-policy ABE system. In our proposal, the authorities may be set up in any moment and without any coordination. A party can simply act as an ABE authority by creating its own public parameters and issuing private keys to the users. A user can thus encrypt data choosing both a set of attributes and a set of trusted authorities, maintaining full control unless all his chosen authorities collude against him. We prove our system secure under the bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption.
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Riccardo Longo, Chiara Marcolla, Massimiliano Sala. 2014-12-13. Key-Policy Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23021-4_14
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