Abstract
Personal health records (PHRs) have been appeared as patient -centric model for health information exchange, which are often outsourced to be stored in cloud services. However, the integrity and privacy of the PHRs are cause for concern that personal health information could be compromised. The principal method to guarantee integrity of PHRs is using signature mechanism when a PHR owner use the PHR to generate signature and a user is able to verify the PHR by using the signature. In some scenario, PHR owner can not sign the PHR by himself/herself, he/her wants to delegate its sign ability to other people to sign the PHR. In order to solve delegation of original signer’s capabilities to guarantee integrity of PHR and the anonymity of the signer, attribute based proxy signature scheme(ABPS) for personal health records was first proposed in this paper. We formalize and construct the ABPS. Our scheme is proved to be existentially unforgeable against chosen message attack in the standard model. Analysis shows that our ABPS is more appropriate for cloud computing environment to guarantee integrity of PHRs.
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Liu, X., Ma, J., Xiong, J., Zhang, T., Li, Q. (2013). Personal Health Records Integrity Verification Using Attribute Based Proxy Signature in Cloud Computing. In: Pathan, M., Wei, G., Fortino, G. (eds) Internet and Distributed Computing Systems. IDCS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8223. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41428-2_19
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