Secure threshold multi authority attribute based encryption without a central authority

  • Authors:
  • Huang Lin;Zhenfu Cao;Xiaohui Liang;Jun Shao

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  • Venue:
  • Information Sciences: an International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

An attribute based encryption scheme (ABE) is a cryptographic primitive in which every user is identified by a set of attributes, and some function of these attributes is used to determine the ability to decrypt each ciphertext. Chase proposed the first multi authority ABE scheme which requires a fully trusted central authority who has the ability to decrypt each ciphertext in the system. This central authority would endanger the whole system if it is corrupted. This paper provides a threshold multi authority fuzzy identity based encryption (MA-FIBE) scheme without a central authority for the first time. An encrypter can encrypt a message such that a user could only decrypt if he has at least d"k of the given attributes about the message for at least t+1,t=