[Resource Topic] 2006/309: Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data

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Title:
Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control of Encrypted Data

Authors: Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai, Brent Waters

Abstract:

As more sensitive data is shared and stored by third-party sites on the Internet, there will be a need to encrypt data stored at these sites. One drawback of encrypting data, is that it can be selectively shared only at a coarse-grained level (i.e., giving another party your private key). We develop a new cryptosystem for fine-grained sharing of encrypted data that we call Key-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (KP-ABE). In our cryptosystem, ciphertexts are labeled with sets of attributes and private keys are associated with access structures that control which ciphertexts a user is able to decrypt. We demonstrate the applicability of our construction to sharing of audit-log information and broadcast encryption. Our construction supports delegation of private keys which subsumes Hierarchical Identity-Based Encryption (HIBE).

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/309

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