Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its ap...Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its application is how to revoke the attributes of the users, though some ABE schemes have realized revocation, they mostly focused on the user revocation that revokes the user＇s whole attributes, or attribute revocation under the indirect revocation model such that all the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation. In this paper, we define the model of CP-ABE supporting the attribute revocation under the direct revocation model, in which the revocation list is embed in the ciphertext and none of the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation process. Then we propose a generic construction, and prove its security with the decision q-BDHE assumption.展开更多
Distributed information systems require complex access control which depends upon attributes of protected data and access policies.Traditionally,to enforce the access control,a file server is used to store all data an...Distributed information systems require complex access control which depends upon attributes of protected data and access policies.Traditionally,to enforce the access control,a file server is used to store all data and act as a reference to check the user.Apparently,the drawback of this system is that the security is based on the file server and the data are stored in plaintext.Attribute-based encryption(ABE) is introduced first by Sahai and Waters and can enable an access control mechanism over encrypted data by specifying the users’ attributes. According to this mechanism,even though the file server is compromised,we can still keep the security of the data. Besides the access control,user may be deprived of the ability in some situation,for example paying TV.More previous ABE constructions are proven secure in the selective model of security that attacker must announce the target he intends to attack before seeing the public parameters.And few of previous ABE constructions realize revocation of the users’ key.This paper presents an ABE scheme that supports revocation and has full security in adaptive model.We adapt the dual system encryption technique recently introduced by Waters to ABE to realize full security.展开更多
In this paper, we propose a new attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme, where a semi-trusted proxy, with some additional information, can transform a ciphertext under a set of attributes into a new ciphertext unde...In this paper, we propose a new attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme, where a semi-trusted proxy, with some additional information, can transform a ciphertext under a set of attributes into a new ciphertext under another set of attributes on the same message, but not vice versa, furthermore, its security was proved in the standard model based on decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption. This scheme can be used to realize fine-grained selectively sharing of encrypted data, but the general proxy rencryption scheme severely can not do it, so the proposed schemecan be thought as an improvement of general traditional proxy re-encryption scheme.展开更多
According to the relation of an attribute set and its subset,the author presents a hierarchical attribute-based encryption scheme in which a secret key is associated with an attribute set.A user can delegate the priva...According to the relation of an attribute set and its subset,the author presents a hierarchical attribute-based encryption scheme in which a secret key is associated with an attribute set.A user can delegate the private key corresponding to any subset of an attribute set while he has the private key corresponding to the attribute set.Moreover,the size of the ciphertext is constant,but the size of private key is linear with the order of the attribute set in the hierarchical attribute-based encryption scheme.Lastly,we can also prove that this encryption scheme meets the security of IND-sSETCPA in the standard model.展开更多
In this paper, we present the first ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption （CP-ABE） scheme for polynomial-size general circuits based on bilinear maps which is more suitable for practical use and more efficien...In this paper, we present the first ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption （CP-ABE） scheme for polynomial-size general circuits based on bilinear maps which is more suitable for practical use and more efficient than multilinear maps. Our scheme uses a top-down secret sharing and FANOUT gate to resist the ＂backtracking attack＂ which is the main barrier expending access tree to general circuit. In the standard model, selective security of our scheme is proved. Comparing with current scheme for general circuits from bilinear maps, our work is more efficient.展开更多
The dissociation between data management and data ownership makes it difficult to protect data security and privacy in cloud storage systems.Traditional encryption technologies are not suitable for data protection in ...The dissociation between data management and data ownership makes it difficult to protect data security and privacy in cloud storage systems.Traditional encryption technologies are not suitable for data protection in cloud storage systems.A novel multi-authority proxy re-encryption mechanism based on ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption（MPRE-CPABE） is proposed for cloud storage systems.MPRE-CPABE requires data owner to split each file into two blocks,one big block and one small block.The small block is used to encrypt the big one as the private key,and then the encrypted big block will be uploaded to the cloud storage system.Even if the uploaded big block of file is stolen,illegal users cannot get the complete information of the file easily.Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption（CPABE）is always criticized for its heavy overload and insecure issues when distributing keys or revoking user＇s access right.MPRE-CPABE applies CPABE to the multi-authority cloud storage system,and solves the above issues.The weighted access structure（WAS） is proposed to support a variety of fine-grained threshold access control policy in multi-authority environments,and reduce the computational cost of key distribution.Meanwhile,MPRE-CPABE uses proxy re-encryption to reduce the computational cost of access revocation.Experiments are implemented on platforms of Ubuntu and CloudSim.Experimental results show that MPRE-CPABE can greatly reduce the computational cost of the generation of key components and the revocation of user＇s access right.MPRE-CPABE is also proved secure under the security model of decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman（DBDH）.展开更多
Cloud storage is a service involving cloud service providers providingstorage space to customers. Cloud storage services have numerous advantages,including convenience, high computation, and capacity, thereby attracti...Cloud storage is a service involving cloud service providers providingstorage space to customers. Cloud storage services have numerous advantages,including convenience, high computation, and capacity, thereby attracting usersto outsource data in the cloud. However, users outsource data directly via cloudstage services that are unsafe when outsourcing data is sensitive for users. Therefore, cipher text-policy attribute-based encryption is a promising cryptographicsolution in a cloud environment, and can be drawn up for access control by dataowners (DO) to define access policy. Unfortunately, an outsourced architectureapplied with attribute-based encryption introduces numerous challenges, including revocation. This issue is a threat to the data security of DO. Furthermore,highly secure and flexible cipher text-based attribute access control with role hierarchy user grouping in cloud storage is implemented by extending the KUNodes(revocation) storage identity-based encryption. Result is evaluated using Cloudsim, and our algorithm outperforms in terms of computational cost by consuming32 MB for 150-MB files.展开更多
Crowdsourcing allows people who are endowed with certain skills to accomplish special tasks with incentive. Despite the state-of-art crowdsourcing schemes have guaranteed low overhead and considerable quality, most of...Crowdsourcing allows people who are endowed with certain skills to accomplish special tasks with incentive. Despite the state-of-art crowdsourcing schemes have guaranteed low overhead and considerable quality, most of them expose task content and user’s attribute information to a centralized server. These servers are vulnerable to single points of failure, the leakage of user’s privacy information, and lacking of transparency. We therefore explored an alternative design for task assignment based on the emerging decentralized blockchain technology. While enabling the advantages of the public blockchain, changing to open operations requires some additional technology and design to preserve the privacy of user’s information. To mitigate this issue, we proposed a secure task assignment scheme, which enables task content preservation and anonymous attribute requirement checking. Specifically, by adopting the cryptographic techniques, the proposed scheme enables task requester to safely place his task in a transparent blockchain. Furthermore, the proposed scheme divides the attribute verification process into public pre-verification and requester verification, so that the requester can check only the identity of the worker, instead of verifying the attributes one by one, thereby preserving the identity of worker while significantly reducing the requester’s calculation burden. Additionally, security analysis demonstrated unrelated entities cannot learn about the task content and identity information from all data uploaded by requester and worker. Performance evaluation showed the low computational overhead of our scheme.展开更多
Fog computing is a concept that extends the paradigm of cloud computing to the network edge. The goal of fog computing is to situate resources in the vicinity of end users. As with cloud computing, fog computing provi...Fog computing is a concept that extends the paradigm of cloud computing to the network edge. The goal of fog computing is to situate resources in the vicinity of end users. As with cloud computing, fog computing provides storage services. The data owners can store their confidential data in many fog nodes, which could cause more challenges for data sharing security. In this paper, we present a novel architecture for data sharing in a fog environment. We explore the benefits of fog computing in addressing one-to-many data sharing applications. This architecture sought to outperform the cloud-based architecture and to ensure further enhancements to system performance, especially from the perspective of security. We will address the security challenges of data sharing, such as fine-grained access control, data confidentiality, collusion resistance, scalability, and the issue of user revocation. Keeping these issues in mind, we will secure data sharing in fog computing by combining attributebased encryption and proxy re-encryption techniques. Findings of this study indicate that our system has the response and processing time faster than classical cloud systems. Further, experimental results show that our system has an efficient user revocation mechanism, and that it provides high scalability and sharing of data in real time with low latency.展开更多
The advent of the digital age has consistently provided impetus for facilitating global trade,as evidenced by the numerous customs clearance documents and participants involved in the international trade process,inclu...The advent of the digital age has consistently provided impetus for facilitating global trade,as evidenced by the numerous customs clearance documents and participants involved in the international trade process,including enterprises,agents,and government departments.However,the urgent issue that requires immediate attention is how to achieve secure and efficient cross-border data sharing among these government departments and enterprises in complex trade processes.In addressing this need,this paper proposes a data exchange architecture employing Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption(MA-ABE)in combination with blockchain technology.This scheme supports proxy decryption,attribute revocation,and policy update,while allowing each participating entity to manage their keys autonomously,ensuring system security and enhancing trust among participants.In order to enhance system decentralization,a mechanism has been designed in the architecture where multiple institutions interact with smart contracts and jointly participate in the generation of public parameters.Integration with the multi-party process execution engine Caterpillar has been shown to boost the transparency of cross-border information flow and cooperation between different organizations.The scheme ensures the auditability of data access control information and the visualization of on-chain data sharing.The MA-ABE scheme is statically secure under the q-Decisional Parallel Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponent(q-DPBDHE2)assumption in the random oracle model,and can resist ciphertext rollback attacks to achieve true backward and forward security.Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate the appropriateness of the scheme for cross-border data collaboration between different institutions.展开更多
针对窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Things,NB-IoT)数据安全访问控制实践中存在的数据丢包率、误比特率较高问题,提出基于属性加密(Attribute-Based Encryption,ABE)算法的NB-IoT数据安全访问控制方法。采用ABE算法对数据加密,构...针对窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Things,NB-IoT)数据安全访问控制实践中存在的数据丢包率、误比特率较高问题,提出基于属性加密(Attribute-Based Encryption,ABE)算法的NB-IoT数据安全访问控制方法。采用ABE算法对数据加密,构建NB-IoT数据安全访问控制架构。基于构建的架构,设计基于ABE算法的数据加密方法和数据安全访问授权机制,实现基于ABE算法的NB-IoT数据安全访问控制。实验证明,应用该方法后,数据丢包率不超过1%,误比特率不超过2%,能够有效控制物联网数据非法访问,保证数据安全。展开更多
文摘Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its application is how to revoke the attributes of the users, though some ABE schemes have realized revocation, they mostly focused on the user revocation that revokes the user＇s whole attributes, or attribute revocation under the indirect revocation model such that all the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation. In this paper, we define the model of CP-ABE supporting the attribute revocation under the direct revocation model, in which the revocation list is embed in the ciphertext and none of the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation process. Then we propose a generic construction, and prove its security with the decision q-BDHE assumption.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60972034)
文摘Distributed information systems require complex access control which depends upon attributes of protected data and access policies.Traditionally,to enforce the access control,a file server is used to store all data and act as a reference to check the user.Apparently,the drawback of this system is that the security is based on the file server and the data are stored in plaintext.Attribute-based encryption(ABE) is introduced first by Sahai and Waters and can enable an access control mechanism over encrypted data by specifying the users’ attributes. According to this mechanism,even though the file server is compromised,we can still keep the security of the data. Besides the access control,user may be deprived of the ability in some situation,for example paying TV.More previous ABE constructions are proven secure in the selective model of security that attacker must announce the target he intends to attack before seeing the public parameters.And few of previous ABE constructions realize revocation of the users’ key.This paper presents an ABE scheme that supports revocation and has full security in adaptive model.We adapt the dual system encryption technique recently introduced by Waters to ABE to realize full security.
基金the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (Y2007G37)the Science and Technology Development Program of Shandong Province (2007GG10001012)
文摘In this paper, we propose a new attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme, where a semi-trusted proxy, with some additional information, can transform a ciphertext under a set of attributes into a new ciphertext under another set of attributes on the same message, but not vice versa, furthermore, its security was proved in the standard model based on decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption. This scheme can be used to realize fine-grained selectively sharing of encrypted data, but the general proxy rencryption scheme severely can not do it, so the proposed schemecan be thought as an improvement of general traditional proxy re-encryption scheme.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(60903175,60703048)the Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province(2009CBD307,2008CDB352)
文摘According to the relation of an attribute set and its subset,the author presents a hierarchical attribute-based encryption scheme in which a secret key is associated with an attribute set.A user can delegate the private key corresponding to any subset of an attribute set while he has the private key corresponding to the attribute set.Moreover,the size of the ciphertext is constant,but the size of private key is linear with the order of the attribute set in the hierarchical attribute-based encryption scheme.Lastly,we can also prove that this encryption scheme meets the security of IND-sSETCPA in the standard model.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61272488)Science and Technology on Information Assurance Laboratory(KJ-15-006)Fundamental and Frontier Technology Research of Henan Province(162300410192)
文摘In this paper, we present the first ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption （CP-ABE） scheme for polynomial-size general circuits based on bilinear maps which is more suitable for practical use and more efficient than multilinear maps. Our scheme uses a top-down secret sharing and FANOUT gate to resist the ＂backtracking attack＂ which is the main barrier expending access tree to general circuit. In the standard model, selective security of our scheme is proved. Comparing with current scheme for general circuits from bilinear maps, our work is more efficient.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(6120200461472192)+1 种基金the Special Fund for Fast Sharing of Science Paper in Net Era by CSTD(2013116)the Natural Science Fund of Higher Education of Jiangsu Province(14KJB520014)
文摘The dissociation between data management and data ownership makes it difficult to protect data security and privacy in cloud storage systems.Traditional encryption technologies are not suitable for data protection in cloud storage systems.A novel multi-authority proxy re-encryption mechanism based on ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption（MPRE-CPABE） is proposed for cloud storage systems.MPRE-CPABE requires data owner to split each file into two blocks,one big block and one small block.The small block is used to encrypt the big one as the private key,and then the encrypted big block will be uploaded to the cloud storage system.Even if the uploaded big block of file is stolen,illegal users cannot get the complete information of the file easily.Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption（CPABE）is always criticized for its heavy overload and insecure issues when distributing keys or revoking user＇s access right.MPRE-CPABE applies CPABE to the multi-authority cloud storage system,and solves the above issues.The weighted access structure（WAS） is proposed to support a variety of fine-grained threshold access control policy in multi-authority environments,and reduce the computational cost of key distribution.Meanwhile,MPRE-CPABE uses proxy re-encryption to reduce the computational cost of access revocation.Experiments are implemented on platforms of Ubuntu and CloudSim.Experimental results show that MPRE-CPABE can greatly reduce the computational cost of the generation of key components and the revocation of user＇s access right.MPRE-CPABE is also proved secure under the security model of decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman（DBDH）.
文摘Cloud storage is a service involving cloud service providers providingstorage space to customers. Cloud storage services have numerous advantages,including convenience, high computation, and capacity, thereby attracting usersto outsource data in the cloud. However, users outsource data directly via cloudstage services that are unsafe when outsourcing data is sensitive for users. Therefore, cipher text-policy attribute-based encryption is a promising cryptographicsolution in a cloud environment, and can be drawn up for access control by dataowners (DO) to define access policy. Unfortunately, an outsourced architectureapplied with attribute-based encryption introduces numerous challenges, including revocation. This issue is a threat to the data security of DO. Furthermore,highly secure and flexible cipher text-based attribute access control with role hierarchy user grouping in cloud storage is implemented by extending the KUNodes(revocation) storage identity-based encryption. Result is evaluated using Cloudsim, and our algorithm outperforms in terms of computational cost by consuming32 MB for 150-MB files.
文摘Crowdsourcing allows people who are endowed with certain skills to accomplish special tasks with incentive. Despite the state-of-art crowdsourcing schemes have guaranteed low overhead and considerable quality, most of them expose task content and user’s attribute information to a centralized server. These servers are vulnerable to single points of failure, the leakage of user’s privacy information, and lacking of transparency. We therefore explored an alternative design for task assignment based on the emerging decentralized blockchain technology. While enabling the advantages of the public blockchain, changing to open operations requires some additional technology and design to preserve the privacy of user’s information. To mitigate this issue, we proposed a secure task assignment scheme, which enables task content preservation and anonymous attribute requirement checking. Specifically, by adopting the cryptographic techniques, the proposed scheme enables task requester to safely place his task in a transparent blockchain. Furthermore, the proposed scheme divides the attribute verification process into public pre-verification and requester verification, so that the requester can check only the identity of the worker, instead of verifying the attributes one by one, thereby preserving the identity of worker while significantly reducing the requester’s calculation burden. Additionally, security analysis demonstrated unrelated entities cannot learn about the task content and identity information from all data uploaded by requester and worker. Performance evaluation showed the low computational overhead of our scheme.
文摘Fog computing is a concept that extends the paradigm of cloud computing to the network edge. The goal of fog computing is to situate resources in the vicinity of end users. As with cloud computing, fog computing provides storage services. The data owners can store their confidential data in many fog nodes, which could cause more challenges for data sharing security. In this paper, we present a novel architecture for data sharing in a fog environment. We explore the benefits of fog computing in addressing one-to-many data sharing applications. This architecture sought to outperform the cloud-based architecture and to ensure further enhancements to system performance, especially from the perspective of security. We will address the security challenges of data sharing, such as fine-grained access control, data confidentiality, collusion resistance, scalability, and the issue of user revocation. Keeping these issues in mind, we will secure data sharing in fog computing by combining attributebased encryption and proxy re-encryption techniques. Findings of this study indicate that our system has the response and processing time faster than classical cloud systems. Further, experimental results show that our system has an efficient user revocation mechanism, and that it provides high scalability and sharing of data in real time with low latency.
基金supported by Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China Nos.622RC617,624RC485Open Foundation of State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)(SKLNST-2023-1-07).
文摘The advent of the digital age has consistently provided impetus for facilitating global trade,as evidenced by the numerous customs clearance documents and participants involved in the international trade process,including enterprises,agents,and government departments.However,the urgent issue that requires immediate attention is how to achieve secure and efficient cross-border data sharing among these government departments and enterprises in complex trade processes.In addressing this need,this paper proposes a data exchange architecture employing Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Encryption(MA-ABE)in combination with blockchain technology.This scheme supports proxy decryption,attribute revocation,and policy update,while allowing each participating entity to manage their keys autonomously,ensuring system security and enhancing trust among participants.In order to enhance system decentralization,a mechanism has been designed in the architecture where multiple institutions interact with smart contracts and jointly participate in the generation of public parameters.Integration with the multi-party process execution engine Caterpillar has been shown to boost the transparency of cross-border information flow and cooperation between different organizations.The scheme ensures the auditability of data access control information and the visualization of on-chain data sharing.The MA-ABE scheme is statically secure under the q-Decisional Parallel Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponent(q-DPBDHE2)assumption in the random oracle model,and can resist ciphertext rollback attacks to achieve true backward and forward security.Theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrate the appropriateness of the scheme for cross-border data collaboration between different institutions.
文摘针对窄带物联网(Narrow Band Internet of Things,NB-IoT)数据安全访问控制实践中存在的数据丢包率、误比特率较高问题,提出基于属性加密(Attribute-Based Encryption,ABE)算法的NB-IoT数据安全访问控制方法。采用ABE算法对数据加密,构建NB-IoT数据安全访问控制架构。基于构建的架构,设计基于ABE算法的数据加密方法和数据安全访问授权机制,实现基于ABE算法的NB-IoT数据安全访问控制。实验证明,应用该方法后,数据丢包率不超过1%,误比特率不超过2%,能够有效控制物联网数据非法访问,保证数据安全。
