Identity-based parallel key-insulated encryption without random oracles: security notions and construction

  • Authors:
  • Jian Weng;Shengli Liu;Kefei Chen;Changshe Ma

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China;Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China;Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P.R. China;School of Computer, South China Normal University Shipai, Guangzhou, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • INDOCRYPT'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Cryptology in India
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper, we apply the parallel key-insulation mechanism to identity-based encryption (IBE) scenarios, and minimize the damage caused by key-exposure in IBE systems. We first formalize the definition and security notions for ID-based parallel key-insulated encryption (IBPKIE) systems, and then propose an IBPKIE scheme based on Water's IBE scheme. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first IBPKIE scheme up to now. Our scheme enjoys two attractive features: (i) it is provably secure without random oracles; (ii) it not only allows frequent key updating, but also does not increase the risk of helper key-exposure.