Chosen-Ciphertext Security from Identity-Based Encryption

  • Authors:
  • Dan Boneh;Ran Canetti;Shai Halevi;Jonathan Katz

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose simple and efficient CCA-secure public-key encryption schemes (i.e., schemes secure against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks) based on any identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme. Our constructions have ramifications of both theoretical and practical interest. First, our schemes give a new paradigm for achieving CCA-security; this paradigm avoids “proofs of well-formedness” that have been shown to underlie previous constructions. Second, instantiating our construction using known IBE constructions we obtain CCA-secure encryption schemes whose performance is competitive with the most efficient CCA-secure schemes to date. Our techniques extend naturally to give an efficient method for securing IBE schemes (even hierarchical ones) against adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks. Coupled with previous work, this gives the first efficient constructions of CCA-secure IBE schemes.