Towards certificate-based group encryption

Yili Ren, Xiling Luo, Qianhong Wu, Joseph K. Liu, Peng Zhang

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    Abstract

    Group Encryption (GE) is a recently proposed cryptographic primitive protecting the privacy of the receivers in a communication system. A majority of group encryption schemes are implicitly based on public key infrastructure (PKI) setting in which the management of certificates are complicated. Identity based encryption (IBE) seems to be a good alternative for PKI in GE, but the private key escrow and the user revocation problem are inherent in IBE system. Certificate-based encryption (CBE) overcomes drawbacks of PKI and IBE. In this paper, we propose a new cryptographic primitive, referred to as certificate-based group encryption (CBGE). In this notion, a certificate authority issues the certificate as a part of decryption key corresponding to a user’s public key and other information; and the user can register himself as a group member to a group manager. Then anyone can verifiably send confidential messages to a group member whose identity information is hidden within a group of certified users. If required, the group manager (GM) can trace the receiver. Following this model, we propose a scheme towards CBGE, where the roles of the verifier and the GM are taken by a single entity. We formally prove the scheme is secure in the random oracle model. Unlike the users existing in GE schemes, users in our scheme need not to check the certificates. CBGE provides an implicit certification mechanism and allows a periodical update of certificate status.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProvable Security
    Subtitle of host publication10th International Conference, ProvSec 2016, Nanjing, China, November 10–11, 2016, Proceedings
    EditorsLiqun Chen, Jinguang Han
    Place of PublicationCham, Switzerland
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages296-305
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319474229
    ISBN (Print)9783319474212
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2016
    EventInternational Conference on Provable Security 2016 - Nanjing, China
    Duration: 10 Nov 201611 Nov 2016
    Conference number: 10th
    https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-47422-9 (Proceedings)

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    PublisherSpringer
    Volume10005
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743
    ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Provable Security 2016
    Abbreviated titleProvSec 2016
    Country/TerritoryChina
    CityNanjing
    Period10/11/1611/11/16
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Certificate-based
    • Group encryption
    • Knowledge proof

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