2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Bridging Broadcast Encryption and Group Key Agreement
Authors : Qianhong Wu, Bo Qin, Lei Zhang, Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Oriol Farràs
Published in: Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2011
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Broadcast encryption (BE) schemes allow a sender to securely broadcast to any subset of members but requires a trusted party to distribute decryption keys. Group key agreement (GKA) protocols enable a group of members to negotiate a common encryption key via open networks so that only the members can decrypt the ciphertexts encrypted under the shared encryption key, but a sender cannot exclude any particular member from decrypting the ciphertexts. In this paper, we bridge these two notions with a hybrid primitive referred to as contributory broadcast encryption (CBE). In this new primitive, a group of members negotiate a common public encryption key while each member holds a decryption key. A sender seeing the public group encryption key can limit the decryption to a subset of members of his choice. Following this model, we propose a CBE scheme with short ciphertexts. The scheme is proven to be fully collusion-resistant under the decision
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-Bilinear Diffie-Hellman Exponentiation (BDHE) assumption in the standard model. We also illustrate a variant in which the communication and computation complexity is sub-linear with the group size. Of independent interest, we present a new BE scheme that is aggregatable. The aggregatability property is shown to be useful to construct advanced protocols.