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Adaptable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption

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Pairing-Based Cryptography – Pairing 2013 (Pairing 2013)

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In this paper, we introduce a new cryptographic primitive, called adaptable ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE). Adaptable CP-ABE extends the traditional CP-ABE by allowing a semi-trusted proxy to modify a ciphertext under one access policy into ciphertexts of the same plaintext under any other access policies; the proxy, however, learns nothing about the underlying plaintext. With such “adaptability” possessed by the proxy, adaptable CP-ABE has many real world applications, such as handling policy changes in CP-ABE encryption of cloud data and outsourcing of CP-ABE encryption.

Specifically, we first specify a formal model of adaptable CP-ABE; then, based on the CP-ABE scheme by Waters, we propose a concrete adaptable CP-ABE scheme and further prove its security under our security model.

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    Junzuo Lai & Jian Weng

  2. School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

    Junzuo Lai, Robert H. Deng & Jian Weng

  3. Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

    Yanjiang Yang

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Lai, J., Deng, R.H., Yang, Y., Weng, J. (2014). Adaptable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption. In: Cao, Z., Zhang, F. (eds) Pairing-Based Cryptography – Pairing 2013. Pairing 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8365. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04873-4_12

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