Enabling Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing with Bilateral Access Control for Cloud

Cloud computing plays an essential role in various fields. However, the existing cloud services face a severe challenge, which is how to share the data among a large scale of devices securely. In this paper, we introduce a cloud-based privacy-preserving data sharing scheme, derived from identity-bas...

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Main Authors: Tong Wu, Xiaochen Ma, Hailun Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2023-11-01
Series:Electronics
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/23/4798
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Summary:Cloud computing plays an essential role in various fields. However, the existing cloud services face a severe challenge, which is how to share the data among a large scale of devices securely. In this paper, we introduce a cloud-based privacy-preserving data sharing scheme, derived from identity-based matchmaking encryption. In our scheme, the access policies are designed by both the sender and receiver simultaneously, to support bilateral access control. To improve efficiency, we delegate the match algorithm to the cloud server, reducing the computation cost and communication overhead on end devices without revealing the users’ privacy. Through formal security analysis, we show that our scheme holds security, authenticity, and privacy. Finally, we evaluate our scheme by conducting extensive experiments, indicating that our scheme is more efficient than the other data-sharing schemes in ME-based services in a real-world dataset.
ISSN:2079-9292