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Anonymous HIBE with short ciphertexts: full security in prime order groups

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Abstract

Anonymous hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) is an extension of identity-based encryption (IBE), and it provides not only a message hiding property but also an identity hiding property. Anonymous HIBE schemes can be applicable to anonymous communication systems and public key encryption systems with keyword searching. However, previous anonymous HIBE schemes have some disadvantages that the security was proven in the weaker model, the size of ciphertexts is not short, or the construction was based on composite order bilinear groups. In this paper, we propose the first efficient anonymous HIBE scheme with short ciphertexts in prime order (asymmetric) bilinear groups, and prove its security in the full model with an efficient reduction. To achieve this, we use the dual system encryption methodology of Waters. We also present the benchmark results of our scheme by measuring the performance of our implementation.

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  1. Lewko and Waters [31] used the parameter hiding property of composite order groups to prove the full security of their HIBE scheme using the dual system encryption technique. The parameter hiding property of composite order \(N=pqr\) is stated that an exponent \(\mathbb{Z }_N\) has one-to-one correspondence with \((\mathbb{Z }_p, \mathbb{Z }_q, \mathbb{Z }_r)\) because of Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) and \(\mathbb{Z }_q\) and \(\mathbb{Z }_r\) values are information theoretically hidden to an adversary even if \(\mathbb{Z }_p\) value is revealed to the adversary.

  2. The dimensions of DPVS is generally proportional to the size of an identity vector in the scheme that uses DPVS [30, 36, 39]. Thus an HIBE scheme based on DPVS that supports \(l\)-depth has linear-size of ciphertexts since it requires at least \(l\)-dimensions in DPVS. To reduce the dimensions of DPVS, one may try to use the technique of Okamoto and Takashima [38], but it only applied to non-anonymous schemes since it should reveal the identity of ciphertexts.

  3. To support private key re-randomization using a public key, some elements \(\hat{g}, \hat{u}, \hat{h} \in \hat{G}\) in a private key should be moved to a public key. However, these elements cannot be moved to the public key since the proof of dual system encryption goes wrong.

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This work was partly supported by the MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning), Korea, under the C-ITRC (Convergence Information Technology Research Center) support program (NIPA-2013-H0301-13-3007) supervised by the NIPA (National IT Industry Promotion Agency) and the IT R&D program of MOTIE/KEIT [KI002113, Development of Security Technology for Car-Healthcare].

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Lee, K., Park, J.H. & Lee, D.H. Anonymous HIBE with short ciphertexts: full security in prime order groups. Des. Codes Cryptogr. 74, 395–425 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10623-013-9868-6

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