Generic construction of hybrid public key traitor tracing with full-public-traceability

  • Authors:
  • Duong Hieu Phan;Reihaneh Safavi-Naini;Dongvu Tonien

  • Affiliations:
  • Adastral Park Postgraduate Research Campus, University College London, Ipswich, United Kingdom;School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Australia, Wollongong, NSW, Australia;School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong, Australia, Wollongong, NSW, Australia

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'06 Proceedings of the 33rd international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In Eurocrypt 2005, Chabanne, Phan and Pointcheval introduced an interesting property for traitor tracing schemes called public traceability, which makes tracing a black-box public operation. However, their proposed scheme only worked for two users and an open question proposed by authors was to provide this property for multi-user systems In this paper, we give a comprehensive solution to this problem by giving a generic construction for a hybrid traitor tracing scheme that provides full-public-traceability. We follow the Tag KEM/DEM paradigm of hybrid encryption systems and extend it to multi-receiver scenario. We define Tag-Broadcast KEM/DEM and construct a secure Tag-BroadcastKEM from a CCA secure PKE and target-collision resistant hash function. We will then use this Tag-Broadcast KEM together with a semantically secure DEM to give a generic construction for Hybrid Public Key Broadcast Encryption. The scheme has a black box tracing algorithm that always correctly identifies a traitor. The hybrid structure makes the system very efficient, both in terms of computation and communication cost. Finally we show a method of reducing the communication cost by using codes with identifiable parent property