Constant Size Ciphertext HIBE in the Augmented Selective-ID Model and its Extensions

At Eurocrypt 2005, Boneh, Boyen and Goh presented a constant size ciphertext hierarchical identity based encryption (HIBE) protocol. Our main contribution is to present a variant of the BBG-HIBE. The new HIBE is proved to be secure (without any degradation) in an extension of the sID model (denoted the s+ -ID model) and the components of the identities are from Zp, where p is a suitable large prime. The BBG-HIBE is proved to be secure in the selective-ID (sID) security model and the components of the identities are from Z∗ p. In the s+ -ID model the adversary is allowed to vary the length of the challenge identity whereas this is not allowed in the sID model. The new HIBE shares all the good features of the BBG-HIBE. The drawback is that the public parameters and the private key are longer than that of the BBG-HIBE. We also provide two more extensions of the basic constant size ciphertext HIBE. The first is a constant size ciphertext HIBE secure in the generalised selective-ID mode...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: JUCS
• Authors: Sanjit Chatterjee, Palash Sarkar
• Keywords: Constant Size Ciphertext, JUCS 2007, S+ -ID Model, SID Model