An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing

Attribute-based encryption is a valuable technique for ensuring data privacy and confidentiality in the realm of cloud computing. Using this cryptographic primitive, the data owner can securely store and share data within the cloud environment. On the other hand, in recent years, extensive advances...

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Main Authors: Vahid Yousefipoor, Taraneh Eghlidos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10242788/
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description Attribute-based encryption is a valuable technique for ensuring data privacy and confidentiality in the realm of cloud computing. Using this cryptographic primitive, the data owner can securely store and share data within the cloud environment. On the other hand, in recent years, extensive advances have been made in quantum processors, which have raised hopes of solving certain mathematical problems includes factoring integers and computing discrete logarithms of large numbers. The advent of quantum computers has posed a significant security threat to existing cryptographic protocols. The existing post-quantum attribute-based encryption schemes have not satisfied the essential features such as verifiability, user privacy and user revocability, simultaneously. In this paper, we present the first secure, practical and post-quantum attribute-based encryption scheme based on rank metric codes. Our scheme enjoys all mentioned features due to utilization of low rank parity check codes. The proposed scheme provides security against chosen plaintext attacks in the standard model, as well as resistance against reaction attacks as a kind of chosen ciphertext attacks. Moreover, at the 256-bit security level, the key size is about 16.5 KB, with an execution time of around 31.2 ms on a desktop. Our implementation results confirm that the proposed scheme is more efficient than the existing post-quantum and classical schemes.
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spelling doaj.art-ce95f524933d49e3af9806521e38e27d2023-09-19T23:01:01ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-01119999010000010.1109/ACCESS.2023.331309810242788An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud ComputingVahid Yousefipoor0https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7618-2309Taraneh Eghlidos1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3182-0277Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranElectronics Research Institute, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, IranAttribute-based encryption is a valuable technique for ensuring data privacy and confidentiality in the realm of cloud computing. Using this cryptographic primitive, the data owner can securely store and share data within the cloud environment. On the other hand, in recent years, extensive advances have been made in quantum processors, which have raised hopes of solving certain mathematical problems includes factoring integers and computing discrete logarithms of large numbers. The advent of quantum computers has posed a significant security threat to existing cryptographic protocols. The existing post-quantum attribute-based encryption schemes have not satisfied the essential features such as verifiability, user privacy and user revocability, simultaneously. In this paper, we present the first secure, practical and post-quantum attribute-based encryption scheme based on rank metric codes. Our scheme enjoys all mentioned features due to utilization of low rank parity check codes. The proposed scheme provides security against chosen plaintext attacks in the standard model, as well as resistance against reaction attacks as a kind of chosen ciphertext attacks. Moreover, at the 256-bit security level, the key size is about 16.5 KB, with an execution time of around 31.2 ms on a desktop. Our implementation results confirm that the proposed scheme is more efficient than the existing post-quantum and classical schemes.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10242788/Attribute based encryptioncompleteness of the search resultsrank metric codesuser privacyuser revocation
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user privacy
user revocation
title An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing
title_full An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing
title_fullStr An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing
title_full_unstemmed An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing
title_short An Efficient Post-Quantum Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme Based on Rank Metric Codes for Cloud Computing
title_sort efficient post quantum attribute based encryption scheme based on rank metric codes for cloud computing
topic Attribute based encryption
completeness of the search results
rank metric codes
user privacy
user revocation
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10242788/
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