Partially Wildcarded Attribute-based Encryption and Its Efficient Construction

Go Ohtake, Yuki Hironaka, Kenjiro Kai, Yosuke Endo, Goichiro Hanaoka, Hajime Watanabe, Shota Yamada, Kouhei Kasamatsu, Takashi Yamakawa, Hideki Imai

2013

Abstract

Many kinds of ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) schemes have been proposed. In CPABE, the set of user attributes is associated with his/her secret key whereas a policy is associated with a ciphertext so that only users whose attributes satisfy the policy can decrypt the ciphertext. CP-ABE may be applied to a variety of services such as access control for file sharing systems and content distribution services. However, CP-ABE costs more for encryption and decryption in comparison with conventional public key encryption schemes since it can handle more flexible policies. In particular, wildcards, which mean that certain attributes are not relevant to the ciphertext policy, are not essential for a certain service. In this paper, we construct a partially wildcarded CP-ABE scheme with a lower decryption cost. In our scheme, the user’s attributes are separated into those requiring wildcards and those not requiring wildcards. Our scheme hence embodies a CP-ABE scheme with a wildcard functionality and an efficient CP-ABE scheme without wildcard functionality. We compare our scheme with the conventional CP-ABE schemes and describe a content distribution service as an application of our scheme.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ohtake G., Hironaka Y., Kai K., Endo Y., Hanaoka G., Watanabe H., Yamada S., Kasamatsu K., Yamakawa T. and Imai H. (2013). Partially Wildcarded Attribute-based Encryption and Its Efficient Construction . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-73-0, pages 339-346. DOI: 10.5220/0004509303390346

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt13,
author={Go Ohtake and Yuki Hironaka and Kenjiro Kai and Yosuke Endo and Goichiro Hanaoka and Hajime Watanabe and Shota Yamada and Kouhei Kasamatsu and Takashi Yamakawa and Hideki Imai},
title={Partially Wildcarded Attribute-based Encryption and Its Efficient Construction},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={339-346},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004509303390346},
isbn={978-989-8565-73-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)
TI - Partially Wildcarded Attribute-based Encryption and Its Efficient Construction
SN - 978-989-8565-73-0
AU - Ohtake G.
AU - Hironaka Y.
AU - Kai K.
AU - Endo Y.
AU - Hanaoka G.
AU - Watanabe H.
AU - Yamada S.
AU - Kasamatsu K.
AU - Yamakawa T.
AU - Imai H.
PY - 2013
SP - 339
EP - 346
DO - 10.5220/0004509303390346