A ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption scheme without pairings

  • Authors:
  • Jiang Zhang;Zhenfeng Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  • Venue:
  • Inscrypt'11 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Sahai and Waters [34] proposed Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) as a new paradigm of encryption algorithms that allow the sender to set a policy to describe who can read the secret data. In recent years, lots of attribute-based schemes appeared in literatures, but almost all the schemes, to the best of our knowledge, are constructed from pairings. In this work, we present a ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) scheme, which supports and-gates without pairings. Our scheme is defined on q-ary lattices, and has a very strong security proof based on worst-case hardness. More precisely, under the learning with errors (LWE) assumption, our CP-ABE scheme is secure against chosen plaintext attack in the selective access structure model. Though our scheme only encrypts one bit at a time, we point out that it can support multi-bit encryption by using a well-known technique. Besides, our result can be easily extended to ideal lattices for a better efficiency.