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Bounded ciphertext policy attribute based encryption

  • University of California at Los Angeles

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Abstract

In a ciphertext policy attribute based encryption system, a user's private key is associated with a set of attributes (describing the user) and an encrypted ciphertext will specify an access policy over attributes. A user will be able to decrypt if and only if his attributes satisfy the ciphertext's policy. In this work, we present the first construction of a ciphertext-policy attribute based encryption scheme having a security proof based on a number theoretic assumption and supporting advanced access structures. Previous CP-ABE systems could either support only very limited access structures or had a proof of security only in the generic group model. Our construction can support access structures which can be represented by a bounded size access tree with threshold gates as its nodes. The bound on the size of the access trees is chosen at the time of the system setup. Our security proof is based on the standard Decisional Bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAutomata, Languages and Programming - 35th International Colloquium, ICALP 2008, Proceedings
Pages579-591
Number of pages13
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2008 - Reykjavik, Iceland
Duration: Jul 7 2008Jul 11 2008

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 2
Volume5126 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference35th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2008
Country/TerritoryIceland
CityReykjavik
Period07/7/0807/11/08

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