Towards public key encryption scheme supporting equality test with fine-grained authorization

  • Authors:
  • Qiang Tang

  • Affiliations:
  • DIES, Faculty of EEMCS, University of Twente, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACISP'11 Proceedings of the 16th Australasian conference on Information security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate a new category of public key encryption schemes which supports equality test between ciphertexts.With this primitive, two users, who possess their own public/private key pairs, can issue token(s) to a proxy to authorize it to perform equality test between their ciphertexts. We provide a formulation and a corresponding construction for this primitive, and our formulation provides fine-grained authorization policy enforcements for users.With the increasing popularity of outsourcing data and computations to third-party service providers, this primitive will be an important building block in designing privacy protection solutions supporting operations on encrypted data.