Paper 2010/188 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2010/188 ↗

Cryptographic Role-based Security Mechanisms based on Role-Key Hierarchy

Yan Zhu
Gail-Joon Ahn
Hongxin Hu
Huaixi Wang
Abstract

Even though role-based access control (RBAC) can tremendously help us minimize the complexity in administering users, it is still needed to realize the notion of roles at the resource level. In this paper, we propose a practical cryptographic RBAC model, called role-key hierarchy model, to support various security features including signature, identification and encryption based on role-key hierarchy. With the help of rich algebraic structure of elliptic curve, we introduce a role-based cryptosystem construction to verify the rationality and validity of our proposed model. Also, a proof-of-concept prototype implementation and performance evaluation are iscussed to demonstrate the feasibility and efficiency of our mechanisms.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2010-06-29: last updated
2010-04-09: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/188
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/188,
      author = {Yan Zhu and Gail-Joon Ahn and Hongxin Hu and Huaixi Wang},
      title = {Cryptographic Role-based Security Mechanisms based on Role-Key Hierarchy},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/188},
      year = {2010},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/188}
}
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