Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles

Recently, Zhu et al. proposed a new identity-based encryption with equality test (IBEwET) in the standard model (IEEE Access, 2023). According to the authors, it was claimed that their proposed construction achieves the indistinguishability against adaptive identity and adaptive chosen ciphertext at...

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Main Author: Hyung Tae Lee
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Published: IEEE 2023-01-01
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10210343/
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description Recently, Zhu et al. proposed a new identity-based encryption with equality test (IBEwET) in the standard model (IEEE Access, 2023). According to the authors, it was claimed that their proposed construction achieves the indistinguishability against adaptive identity and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks (IND-ID-CCA) by adversaries who do not have trapdoors for equality tests and the one-wayness against adaptive identity and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks (OW-ID-CCA) by adversaries who have trapdoors. In this paper, we propose adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks against Zhu et al.’s construction that break the IND-ID-CCA security and the OW-ID-CCA security. Subsequently, we discuss how to fix their scheme so that it achieves the security requirements, as claimed in the original paper, however we confirm that a simple modification is no longer superior to the currently existing IBEwET schemes over bilinear groups in the standard model, obtained by generic constructions for IBEwET. Furthermore, we point out another issue that some operations in the original encryption algorithm are incompatible.
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spelling doaj.art-fe75866f42b84c45bfe568bf3094bc912024-03-26T17:34:50ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111845338454210.1109/ACCESS.2023.330290110210343Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random OraclesHyung Tae Lee0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0920-2026School of Computer Science and Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of KoreaRecently, Zhu et al. proposed a new identity-based encryption with equality test (IBEwET) in the standard model (IEEE Access, 2023). According to the authors, it was claimed that their proposed construction achieves the indistinguishability against adaptive identity and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks (IND-ID-CCA) by adversaries who do not have trapdoors for equality tests and the one-wayness against adaptive identity and adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks (OW-ID-CCA) by adversaries who have trapdoors. In this paper, we propose adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks against Zhu et al.’s construction that break the IND-ID-CCA security and the OW-ID-CCA security. Subsequently, we discuss how to fix their scheme so that it achieves the security requirements, as claimed in the original paper, however we confirm that a simple modification is no longer superior to the currently existing IBEwET schemes over bilinear groups in the standard model, obtained by generic constructions for IBEwET. Furthermore, we point out another issue that some operations in the original encryption algorithm are incompatible.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10210343/Chosen ciphertext attacksidentity-based encryption with equality testindistinguishabilityone-waynessstandard model
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Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
IEEE Access
Chosen ciphertext attacks
identity-based encryption with equality test
indistinguishability
one-wayness
standard model
title Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
title_full Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
title_fullStr Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
title_full_unstemmed Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
title_short Cryptanalysis of Zhu et al.’s Identity-Based Encryption With Equality Test Without Random Oracles
title_sort cryptanalysis of zhu et al x2019 s identity based encryption with equality test without random oracles
topic Chosen ciphertext attacks
identity-based encryption with equality test
indistinguishability
one-wayness
standard model
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10210343/
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