Achieving revocable fine-grained cryptographic access control over cloud data

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is well suited for finegrained access control for data residing on a cloud server. However, existing approaches for user revocation are not satisfactory. In this work, we propose a new approach which works by splitting an authorized user’s decryption capability betwe...

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Main Authors: YANG, Yanjiang, DING, Xuhua, LU, Haibing, WAN, Zhiguo, ZHOU, Jianying
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1968
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2967/viewcontent/101007_2F978_3_319_27659_5_21.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English
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Summary:Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is well suited for finegrained access control for data residing on a cloud server. However, existing approaches for user revocation are not satisfactory. In this work, we propose a new approach which works by splitting an authorized user’s decryption capability between the cloud and the user herself. User revocation is attained by simply nullifying the decryption ability at the cloud, requiring neither key update nor re-generation of cloud data. We propose a concrete scheme instantiating the approach, which features lightweight computation at the user side. This makes it possible for users to use resource-constrained devices such as mobile phones to access cloud data. We implement our scheme, and also empirically evaluate its performance.