On the Impossibility of Basing Identity Based Encryption on Trapdoor Permutations

  • Authors:
  • Dan Boneh;Periklis Papakonstantinou;Charles Rackoff;Yevgeniy Vahlis;Brent Waters

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • FOCS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 49th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We ask whether an Identity Based Encryption (IBE) system can be built from simpler public-key primitives. We show that there is no black-box construction of IBE from Trapdoor Permutations (TDP) or even from Chosen Ciphertext Secure Public Key Encryption (CCA-PKE). These black-box separation results are based on an essential property of IBE, namely that an IBE system is able to compress exponentially many public-keys into a short public parameters string.