A generic transformation from symmetric to asymmetric broadcast encryption

  • Authors:
  • Ulrich Huber;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • Affiliations:
  • Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany;Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • ISC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Information Security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Broadcast Encryption (BE) schemes allow a sender to efficiently encrypt messages for a large set of receivers. The currently most efficient BE schemes in the stateless receiver scenario are based on symmetric cryptography. However, a variety of business models with mutually mistrusting senders necessitates the use of asymmetric cryptography. We propose a generic framework that allows to transform a large class of symmetric BE schemes into asymmetric schemes, where the transformation employs an arbitrary hierarchical identity based encryption scheme. Applying our framework, we transform a recent symmetric scheme, called layered punctured interval scheme, for which no asymmetric version has yet been published. In addition, we give a formal proof of the chosen ciphertext security of our framework, which allows to generically transform any future symmetric BE scheme within the large class into a chosen-ciphertext-secure asymmetric scheme with the same efficiency measures.