A separation between selective and full-identity security notions for identity-based encryption

  • Authors:
  • David Galindo

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, GL, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ICCSA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Volume Part III
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Identity-based encryption has attracted a lot of attention since the publication of the scheme by Boneh and Franklin. In this work we compare the two adversarial models previously considered in the literature, namely the full and selective-identity models. Remarkably, we show that the strongest security level with respect to selective-identity attacks (i.e. chosen-ciphertext security) fails to imply the weakest full-identity security level (i.e. one-wayness). In addition, an analogous result for the related primitive of tag-based encryption is presented.