Flexible attribute-based encryption

  • Authors:
  • Seiko Arita

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Security, Institute of Information Security, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICICS'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a notion of flexible attribute-based encryption. Flexible attribute-based encryption is a variant of ciphertext-policy ABE, which allows one to loosen a decryption policy underlying a given ciphertext, if one knows some system-wide trapdoor information, without knowing its underlying plaintext message. We give a concrete construction of the flexible attribute-based encryption that satisfies indistinguishability under the loosening operation, based on the construction of ciphertext-policy ABE given by Bethencourt, Sahai and Waters.