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Data User-Based Attribute-Based Encryption

Cryptography and Security 2020-02-12 v1 Social and Information Networks

Abstract

Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) has emerged as an information-centric public-key cryptographic system which allows a data owner to share data, according to access policy, with multiple data users based on the attributes they possess, without knowing their identities. In the original ABE schemes, a central authority administrates the system and issues secret keys to data users based on their attributes and both the owner and users need to trust a specific CA. However, in certain real-world applications, the data users would not trust anyone but themselves. For such situations, we introduce a new decentralization model of ABE, termed Data User-based ABE (DU-ABE), which is managed jointly by the data users. DU-ABE is the first decentralized ABE scheme that replaces the authorities with the data users without employing any other extra entities.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04427,
  title  = {Data User-Based Attribute-Based Encryption},
  author = {Ehsan Meamari and Hao Guo and Chien-Chung Shen and Rui Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04427},
  year   = {2020}
}

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5 pages, 1 figures