On Quorum Controlled Asymmetric Proxy Re-encryption

  • Authors:
  • Markus Jakobsson

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • PKC '99 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We present a scheme for quorum controlled asymmetric proxy re-encryption, with uses ranging from efficient key distribution for pay-tv to email applications. We prove that the scheme, which is based on El-Gamal encryption, leaks no information as long as there is no dishonest quorum of proxy servers. Of potential independent interest is a method providing publicly verifiable translation certificates, proving that the input and output encryptions correspond to the same plaintext message, without leaking any information about the plaintext to either the verifier or a subset of the servers of the prover. The size of the certificate is small, and independent of the number of prover servers.