General Certificateless Encryption and Timed-Release Encryption

  • Authors:
  • Sherman S. Chow;Volker Roth;Eleanor G. Rieffel

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA NY 10012;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, , Palo Alto, USA CA 94304;FX Palo Alto Laboratory, , Palo Alto, USA CA 94304

  • Venue:
  • SCN '08 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

While recent timed-release encryption (TRE) schemes are implicitly supported by a certificateless encryption (CLE) mechanism, the security models of CLE and TRE differ and there is no generic transformation from a CLE to a TRE. This paper gives a generalized model for CLE that fulfills the requirements of TRE. This model is secure against adversaries with adaptive trapdoor extraction capabilities, decryption capabilities for arbitrary public keys, and partial decryption capabilities. It also supports hierarchical identifiers. We propose a concrete scheme under our generalized model and prove it secure without random oracles, yielding the first strongly-secure security-mediated CLE and the first TRE in the standard model. In addition, our technique of partial decryption is different from the previous approach.