Policy-based cryptography and applications

  • Authors:
  • Walid Bagga;Refik Molva

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut Eurécom, Corporate Communications, Sophia Antipolis, France;Institut Eurécom, Corporate Communications, Sophia Antipolis, France

  • Venue:
  • FC'05 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce the concept of policy-based cryptography which makes it possible to perform policy enforcement in large-scale open environments like the Internet, while respecting the data minimization principle according to which only strictly necessary information should be collected for a given purpose. We propose concrete policy-based encryption and signature schemes, based on bilinear pairings, which allow performing relatively efficient encryption and signature operations with respect to credential-based policies formalized as boolean expressions written in generic conjunctive-disjunctive normal form. We illustrate the privacy properties of our policy-based cryptographic schemes through the description of three application scenarios.