Probabilistic public key encryption with equality test

  • Authors:
  • Guomin Yang;Chik How Tan;Qiong Huang;Duncan S. Wong

  • Affiliations:
  • Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore;Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong;Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • CT-RSA'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Topics in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a (probabilistic) public key encryption (PKE) scheme such that when being implemented in a bilinear group, anyone is able to check whether two ciphertexts are encryptions of the same message. Interestingly, bilinear map operations are not required in key generation, encryption or decryption procedures of the PKE scheme, but is only required when people want to do an equality test (on the encrypted messages) between two ciphertexts that may be generated using different public keys. We show that our PKE scheme can be used in different applications such as searchable encryption and partitioning encrypted data. Moreover, we show that when being implemented in a non-bilinear group, the security of our PKE scheme can be strengthened from One-Way CCA to a weak form of IND-CCA.