Cryptanalysis of Chatterjee-Sarkar hierarchical identity-based encryption scheme at PKC 06

Jong Hwan Park, Dong Hoon Lee

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Abstract

In 2006, Chatterjee and Sarkar proposed a hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) scheme which can support an unbounded number of identity levels. This property is particularly useful in providing forward secrecy by embedding time components within hierarchical identities. In this paper we show that their scheme does not provide the claimed property. Our analysis shows that if the number of identity levels becomes larger than the value of a fixed public parameter, an unintended receiver can reconstruct a new valid ciphertext and decrypt the ciphertext using his or her own private key. The analysis is similarly applied to a multi-receiver identity-based encryption scheme presented as an application of Chatterjee and Sarkar's HIBE scheme.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1724-1726
Number of pages3
JournalIEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
VolumeE92-A
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009

Keywords

  • Bilinear pairing
  • Hierarchical identity-based encryption
  • Unbounded delegation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Signal Processing
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Applied Mathematics

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