Paper 2018/755 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2018/755 ↗

Simulation-Based Selective Opening Security for Receivers under Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks

Zhengan Huang
Junzuo Lai
Wenbin Chen
Man Ho Au
Zhen Peng
Jin Li
Abstract

Security against selective opening attack (SOA) for receivers requires that in a multi-user setting, even if an adversary has access to all ciphertexts, and adaptively corrupts some fraction of the users to obtain the decryption keys corresponding to some of the ciphertexts, the remaining (potentially related) ciphertexts retain their privacy. In this paper, we study simulation-based selective opening security for receivers of public key encryption (PKE) schemes under chosen-ciphertext attacks (RSIM-SO-CCA). Concretely, we first show that some known PKE schemes meet RSIM-SO-CCA security. Then, we introduce the notion of master-key SOA security for identity-based encryption (IBE), and extend the Canetti-Halevi-Katz (CHK) transformation to show generic PKE constructions achieving RSIM-SO-CCA security. Finally, we show how to construct an IBE scheme achieving master-key SOA security.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2018-08-20: last updated
2018-08-20: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2018/755
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/755,
      author = {Zhengan Huang and Junzuo Lai and Wenbin Chen and Man Ho Au and Zhen Peng and Jin Li},
      title = {Simulation-Based Selective Opening Security for Receivers under Chosen-Ciphertext Attacks},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/755},
      year = {2018},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/755}
}
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