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Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with partially hidden access structure and its application to privacy-preserving electronic medical record system in cloud environment
Security and Communication Networks
  • Lixian LIU, Jinan University - China
  • Junzuo LAI, Jinan University - China
  • Robert H. DENG, Singapore Management University
  • Yingjiu LI, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
12-2016
Abstract

With the development of cloud computing, more and more sensitive data are uploaded to cloud by companies or individuals, which brings forth new challenges for outsourced data security and privacy. Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) provides fine-grained access control of encrypted data in the cloud; in a CP-ABE scheme, an access structure, also referred to as ciphertext-policy, is sent along with a ciphertext explicitly, and anyone who obtains a ciphertext can know the access structure associated with the ciphertext. In certain applications, access structures contain very sensitive information and must be protected from everyone except the users whose private key attributes satisfy the access structures. In this paper, we propose a new model for CP-ABE with partially hidden access structure (See Figure 2). In our model, each attribute consists of two parts: an attribute name and its value; if the private key attributes of a user do not satisfy the access structure associated with a ciphertext, the specific attribute values of the access structure are hidden, while other information about the access structure is public. Based on the CP-ABE scheme proposed by Lewko and Waters recently, we then present a concrete construction of CP-ABE with partially hidden access structure and prove that it is fully secure in the standard model. In addition, we discuss how our new model can be employed to construct a privacy-preserving electronic medical record system in the cloud environment.

Keywords
  • Ciphertext-policy,
  • Cloud computing,
  • Hidden access structure,
  • Privacy-preserving electronic medical record
Identifier
10.1002/sec.1663
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org./10.1002/sec.1663
Citation Information
Lixian LIU, Junzuo LAI, Robert H. DENG and Yingjiu LI. "Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption with partially hidden access structure and its application to privacy-preserving electronic medical record system in cloud environment" Security and Communication Networks Vol. 9 Iss. 18 (2016) p. 4897 - 4913 ISSN: 1939-0122
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/robert-deng/197/