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Accountable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Public Verifiability and Nonrepudiation

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Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption, denoted by CP-ABE, is a promising extension of identity-based encryption which enables fine-grained data access control by taking a set of attributes as users’ public key. However, owing to the fact that an attribute set may be shared by multiple users, malicious users dare to share their decryption keys to others for profits. Furthermore, the central authority is able to issue arbitrary decryption keys for any unauthorized users. To prevent these two kinds of key abuses in CP-ABE system, we propose an accountable CP-ABE scheme which allows any third party to publicly verify the identity embedded in a leaked decryption key, allows an auditor to publicly check whether a malicious user or the authority should be responsible for an exposed decryption key, and the malicious user or the authority can’t deny it. The proposed accountable CP-ABE scheme supports any LSSS realizable access structures. At last, the confidentiality and public verifiability of the proposed scheme can be proved to be tightly related to the atomic CP-ABE scheme and the signature scheme that it composed from.

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Acknowledgment

This work was supported in part by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2016M591629, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61373154, 61371083, 61411146001, 6163000206 and 6160060473, in part by the Prioritized Development Projects through the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China under Grant 20130073130004, in part by Shanghai High-tech field project under Grant 16511101400, and in part by Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai under Grant 16ZR1409200. The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers of this paper for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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    Gang Yu & Zhenfu Cao

  2. State Key Laboratory of Mathematical Engineering and Advanced Computing, Zhengzhou, China

    Gang Yu, Guang Zeng & Wenbao Han

  3. Information Science and Technology Institute, Zhengzhou, China

    Gang Yu, Guang Zeng & Wenbao Han

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Yu, G., Cao, Z., Zeng, G., Han, W. (2016). Accountable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Supporting Public Verifiability and Nonrepudiation. In: Chen, L., Han, J. (eds) Provable Security. ProvSec 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10005. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47422-9_1

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