Master-Key KDM-Secure IBE from Pairings

Sanjam Garg, Romain Gay, Mohammad Hajiabadi

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Abstract

Identity-based encryption (IBE) is a generalization of public-key encryption (PKE) by allowing encryptions to be made to user identities. In this work, we seek to obtain IBE schemes that achieve key-dependent-message (KDM) security with respect to messages that depend on the master secret key. Previous KDM-secure schemes only achieved KDM security in simpler settings, in which messages may only depend on user secret keys. An important motivation behind studying master-KDM security is the application of this notion in obtaining generic constructions of KDM-CCA secure PKE, a primitive notoriously difficult to realize. We give the first IBE that achieves master-KDM security from standard assumptions in pairing groups. Our construction is modular and combines techniques from KDM-secure PKE based from hash-proof systems, together with IBE that admits a tight security proof in the multi-challenge setting, which happens to be unexpectedly relevant in the context of KDM security. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first setting where techniques developed in the context of realizing tightly secure cryptosystems have led to a new feasibility result. As a byproduct, our KDM-secure IBE, and thus the resulting KDM-CCA-secure PKE both enjoy a tight security reduction, independent of the number of challenge ciphertexts, which was not achieved before.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationPublic-Key Cryptography – PKC 2020 - 23rd IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings
EditorsAggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss, Petros Wallden, Vassilis Zikas
PublisherSpringer
Pages123-152
Number of pages30
ISBN (Print)9783030453732
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: May 4 2020May 7 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12110 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period5/4/205/7/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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