A versatile cryptographic toolkit for flexible access control

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Abstract

Many data driven networks have been developed so that data can be collected and shared for bettering our life. Various cryptosystems are presented to address security and privacy issues in such emerging networks. Observing that implementing various cryptographic schemes separately in one system leads to undesirable heavy development and management overheads, we create a versatile cryptographic toolkit from Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) systems. Our toolkit supports attributes, indices, and identities based access control. We achieve this goal by converting some CP-ABE schemes into conventional Broadcast Encryption (BE) and Identity-Based Broadcast Encryption (IBBE) schemes. By configuring the system parameters, one can further obtain conventional Public Key Encryption and Identity-Based Encryption systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIET Conference Publications
PublisherInstitution of Engineering and Technology
EditionCP653
ISBN (Print)9781849198448
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event2014 Communications Security Conference, CSC 2014 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 May 201424 May 2014

Publication series

NameIET Conference Publications
NumberCP653
Volume2014

Conference

Conference2014 Communications Security Conference, CSC 2014
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/05/1424/05/14

Keywords

  • Access control
  • Attribute-based encryption
  • Broadcast encryption
  • Identity-based broadcast encryption

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