Concessive online/offline attribute based encryption with cryptographic reverse firewalls: Secure and efficient fine-grained access control on corrupted machines

• Main Authors: MA, Hui, ZHANG, Rui, YANG, Guomin, SONG, Zishuai, SUN, Shuzhou, XIAO, Yuting
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2018
• Subjects: Information Security
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7415; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8418/viewcontent/Concessive_online_offline_attribute_based_encryption_with_cryptographic_reverse_firewalls.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Attribute based encryption (ABE) has potential to be applied in various cloud computing applications. However, the Snowden revelations show that powerful adversaries can corrupt users’ machines to compromise the security, and many implementations of provably secure encryption schemes may present und...