[Resource Topic] 2012/515: Semantically-Secure Functional Encryption: Possibility Results, Impossibility Results and the Quest for a General Definition

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Title:
Semantically-Secure Functional Encryption: Possibility Results, Impossibility Results and the Quest for a General Definition

Authors: Mihir Bellare, Adam O'Neill

Abstract:

This paper explains that SS1-secure functional encryption (FE) as defined by Boneh, Sahai and Waters implicitly incorporates security under key-revealing selective opening attacks (SOA-K). This connection helps intuitively explain their impossibility results and also allows us to prove stronger ones. To fill this gap and move us closer to the (laudable) goal of a general and achievable notion of FE security, we seek and provide two ``sans SOA-K’’ definitions of FE security that we call SS2 and SS3. We prove various possibility results about these definitions. We view our work as a first step towards the challenging goal of a general, meaningful and achievable notion of FE security.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/515

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