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Published in: Mobile Networks and Applications 5/2011

01-10-2011

Enhancing Attribute-Based Encryption with Attribute Hierarchy

Authors: Jin Li, Qian Wang, Cong Wang, Kui Ren

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Abstract

Attribute-based encryption (ABE) has been envisioned as a promising cryptographic primitive for realizing secure and flexible access control. However, ABE is being criticized for its high scheme overhead as extensive pairing operations are usually required. In this paper, we focus on improving the efficiency of ABE by leveraging a previously overlooked fact, i.e., the often-found hierarchical relationships among the attributes that are inherent to many access control scenarios. As the first research effort along this direction, we coin the notion of hierarchical ABE (HABE), which can be viewed as the generalization of traditional ABE in the sense that both definitions are equal when all attributes are independent. We further give a concrete HABE construction considering a tree hierarchy among the attributes, which is provably secure. More importantly, our construction exhibits significant improvements over the traditional ABE when attribute hierarchies exist.
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Footnotes
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In this paper, assume ω is in depth k i of the i-th tree and let its path be (ω i0, ω i1, ⋯ , ω i,k − 1, ω). For convenience, we will use the notation ω ik instead of ω to denote its position in its path, without especial explanation in the following sections.
 
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Metadata
Title
Enhancing Attribute-Based Encryption with Attribute Hierarchy
Authors
Jin Li
Qian Wang
Cong Wang
Kui Ren
Publication date
01-10-2011
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Mobile Networks and Applications / Issue 5/2011
Print ISSN: 1383-469X
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8153
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-010-0233-y

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