Combined public-key schemes: the case of ABE and ABS

  • Authors:
  • Cheng Chen;Jie Chen;Hoon Wei Lim;Zhenfeng Zhang;Dengguo Feng

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Division of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • ProvSec'12 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Provable Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In the context of public key cryptography, combined encryption and signature schemes have attractive properties and are sometimes used in practice. The topic of joint security of signature and encryption schemes has a fairly extensive history. In this paper, we focus on the combined public-key schemes in attribute-based setting. We present a security model for combined CP-ABE and ABS schemes in the joint security setting. An efficient concrete construction of CP-ABE and ABS based on Waters's CP-ABE scheme is proposed. Our scheme is proved to be selectively jointly secure in standard model under reasonable assumptions. Moreover, we consider the problem of how to build attribute-based signcryption (ABSC) and obtain an ABSC scheme and show that it is secure. We also give a general construction of combined ABSC, CP-ABE and ABS schemes from combined CP-ABE and ABS schemes.