On the relations between non-interactive key distribution, identity-based encryption and trapdoor discrete log groups

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth G. Paterson;Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK TW20 0EX;Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK TW20 0EX

  • Venue:
  • Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper investigates the relationships between identity-based non-interactive key distribution (ID-NIKD) and identity-based encryption (IBE). It provides a new security model for ID-NIKD, and a construction that converts a secure ID-NIKD scheme satisfying certain conditions into a secure IBE scheme. This conversion is used to explain the relationship between the ID-NIKD scheme of Sakai, Ohgishi and Kasahara and the IBE scheme of Boneh and Franklin. The paper then explores the construction of ID-NIKD and IBE schemes from general trapdoor discrete log groups. Two different concrete instantiations for such groups provide new, provably secure ID-NIKD and IBE schemes. These schemes are suited to applications in which the Trusted Authority is computationally well-resourced, but clients performing encryption/decryption are highly constrained.