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Secure and {\sl Practical} Identity-Based Encryption

Cryptography and Security 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this paper, we present a variant of Waters' Identity-Based Encryption scheme with a much smaller public-key size (only a few kilobytes). We show that this variant is semantically secure against passive adversaries in the standard model.\smallskip In essence, the new scheme divides Waters' public key size by a factor \ell at the cost of (negligibly) reducing security by \ell bits. Therefore, our construction settles an open question asked by Waters and constitutes the first fully secure {\sl practical} Identity-Based Encryption scheme

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@article{arxiv.cs/0510042,
  title  = {Secure and {\sl Practical} Identity-Based Encryption},
  author = {David Naccache},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0510042},
  year   = {2007}
}