Breaking an identity-based encryption scheme based on DHIES

  • Authors:
  • Martin R. Albrecht;Kenneth G. Paterson

  • Affiliations:
  • INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt Center, SALSA Project UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR 7606, LIP6, Paris, France;Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London, France

  • Venue:
  • IMACC'11 Proceedings of the 13th IMA international conference on Cryptography and Coding
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present collusion attacks against a recently proposed IBE scheme of Chen et al. from ASIACCS 2010. The attacks recover the master secret key of the scheme and thereby invalidate the existing security analysis of this scheme. The attacks are flexible, allowing, for example, the amount of computation needed to be traded-off against the size of the collusion.