Visible to the public Practical and Efficient Attribute-Based Encryption with Constant-Size Ciphertexts in Outsourced Verifiable Computation

TitlePractical and Efficient Attribute-Based Encryption with Constant-Size Ciphertexts in Outsourced Verifiable Computation
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsZhang, Kai, Gong, Junqing, Tang, Shaohua, Chen, Jie, Li, Xiangxue, Qian, Haifeng, Cao, Zhenfu
Conference NameProceedings of the 11th ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-4233-9
Keywordsattribute based encryption, attribute-based encryption, charm, dual system encryption, Metrics, outsourced computation, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, verifiable computation
Abstract

In cloud computing, computationally weak users are always willing to outsource costly computations to a cloud, and at the same time they need to check the correctness of the result provided by the cloud. Such activities motivate the occurrence of verifiable computation (VC). Recently, Parno, Raykova and Vaikuntanathan showed any VC protocol can be constructed from an attribute-based encryption (ABE) scheme for a same class of functions. In this paper, we propose two practical and efficient semi-adaptively secure key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) schemes with constant-size ciphertexts. The semi-adaptive security requires that the adversary designates the challenge attribute set after it receives public parameters but before it issues any secret key query, which is stronger than selective security guarantee. Our first construction deals with small universe while the second one supports large universe. Both constructions employ the technique underlying the prime-order instantiation of nested dual system groups, which are based on the \$d\$-linear assumption including SXDH and DLIN assumptions. In order to evaluate the performance, we implement our ABE schemes using \$\textbackslashtextsf\Python\\$ language in Charm. Compared with previous KP-ABE schemes with constant-size ciphertexts, our constructions achieve shorter ciphertext and secret key sizes, and require low computation costs, especially under the SXDH assumption.

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2897845.2897858
DOI10.1145/2897845.2897858
Citation Keyzhang_practical_2016