A generic construction of accountable decryption and its applications

  • Authors:
  • Xuhua Zhou;Xuhua Ding;Kefei Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China;Singapore Management University, Singapore;Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Scalable Computing and Systems, Shanghai, China

  • Venue:
  • ACISP'12 Proceedings of the 17th Australasian conference on Information Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a new cryptographic notion called accountable decryption by which, given a ciphertext, a decryptor proves both the correctness of his decryption and the plaintext authenticity to a public verifier. We define its security from three aspects: message confidentiality, soundness of verifiability and plaintext authenticity. Given any asymmetric or symmetric key encryption scheme, we propose a method to construct the corresponding accountable decryption scheme with provable security. To demonstrate its applications, we also present the constructions for predicate encryption and for public-key encryption with keyword search.