Paper 2010/357

CCA-Secure PRE Scheme without Public Verifiability

Jun Shao, Peng liu, and Jian Weng

Abstract

In a proxy re-encryption (PRE) scheme, a semi-trusted proxy can transform a ciphertext under Alice's public key into another ciphertext that Bob can decrypt. However, the proxy cannot access the plaintext. Due to its transformation property, PRE can be used in many applications, such as encrypted email forwarding. All the existing CCA-secure PRE schemes have a crucial property: the public verifiability of the original ciphertext, i.e., everyone can check the validity of the original ciphertext. In this paper, we propose a novel CCA-secure PRE scheme without public verifiability. This proposal is proven-secure based on the DDH assumption in the standard model. To the best of our knowledge, our proposal is the first CCA-secure unidirectional PRE scheme without pairings in the standard model, which answers an open problem in the PRE field.

Metadata
Available format(s)
-- withdrawn --
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
proxy re-encryption
Contact author(s)
chn junshao @ gmail com
History
2010-08-29: withdrawn
2010-06-25: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/357
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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