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Improving Security and Privacy in Attribute-Based Encryption with Anonymous Credential

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Recent Innovations in Computing

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Abstract

Attribute-based encryption [19] is developed based on fuzzy identity encryption. In the identity-giving cryptosystem, the user’s public key can be any information that identifies the users. The original ABE schemes define a Central Authority (CA) for key management, allowing users to verify the ownership of attributes and thereby get access to sensitive resources. However, this CA construction is contradictory to the distributed computing requirement and compromises the users’ privacy. Meanwhile, it does not fit the large-scaled computing environment. Thus, in our paper, we propose a new anonymous, decentralized, unlinkable access and collusion attack that prevented CP-ABE scheme with a pseudonym system by Chaum to improve user privacy and data security.

This research has been partially supported by Application Domain Specific Highly Reliable IT Solutions project which has been implemented with the support provided from the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund of Hungary, financed under the Thematic Excellence Programme TKP2020-NKA-06 (National Challenges Subprogramme) funding scheme).

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  1. Department of Computeralgebra, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary

    Yuping Yan & Péter Ligeti

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    Pradeep Kumar Singh

  2. Department of CSE, Central University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India

    Yashwant Singh

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, NIT Kurukshetra, Kurukshetra, India

    Jitender Kumar Chhabra

  4. Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

    Zoltán Illés

  5. Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, Hungary

    Chaman Verma

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Yan, Y., Ligeti, P. (2022). Improving Security and Privacy in Attribute-Based Encryption with Anonymous Credential. In: Singh, P.K., Singh, Y., Chhabra, J.K., Illés, Z., Verma, C. (eds) Recent Innovations in Computing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 855. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8892-8_58

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