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A hierarchical access control mechanism is required when some users of a system have more access privileges than others. A set of users in the system can be divided into subsets called classes which are hierarchically organized in a way that any class can access data meant for the classes lower in the hierarchy but not vice versa. In this paper, we propose a re-encryption-based access control scheme for a hierarchy of security classes in which storage overhead on the users belonging to every security class is constant with public storage requirements being linear in the number of classes in the hierarchy. Direct re-encryption key from a class lower down the hierarchy to the one higher up can be derived using intermediate re-encryption keys available between each pair of adjacent classes. The re-encryption key derivation procedure requires steps of the order of the depth of the class for which the data was initially encrypted. As a result of re-encryption key derivation, just one re-encryption is needed.
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Pareek, G., Purushothama, B.R. (2019). A Provably Secure Re-encryption-Based Access Control in Hierarchy. In: Sa, P., Bakshi, S., Hatzilygeroudis, I., Sahoo, M. (eds) Recent Findings in Intelligent Computing Techniques . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 707. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8639-7_10
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