Despite the large number of certificateless encryption schemes proposed recently, many of them have been found insecure under a practical attack, called malicious-but-passive KGC （Key Generation Center） attack. In t...Despite the large number of certificateless encryption schemes proposed recently, many of them have been found insecure under a practical attack, called malicious-but-passive KGC （Key Generation Center） attack. In this work we propose the first generic construction of certificateless encryption, which can be proven secure against malicious-but- passive KGC attacks in the standard model. In order to encrypt a message of any length, we consider the KEM/DEM （key encapsulation mechanism/data encapsulation mechanism） framework in the certificateless setting, and propose a generic construction of certificateless key encapsulation mechanism （CL-KEM） secure against malicious-but-passive KGC attacks in the standard model. It is based on an identity-based KEM, a public key encryption and a message authentication code. The high efficiency of our construction is due to the efficient implementations of these underlying building blocks, and is comparable to Bentahar et al.＇s CL-KEMs, which have only been proven secure under the random oracle model with no consideration of the malicious-but-passive KGC attack. We also introduce the notion of certificateless tag-based KEM （CL-TKEM）, which is an extension of Abe et al.＇s work to the certificateless setting. We show that an efficient CL-TKEM can be constructed by modifying our CL-KEM scheme. We also show that with a CL-TKEM and a data encapsulation mechanism secure under our proposed security model, an efficient certificateless hybrid encryption can be constructed by applying Abe et al.＇s transformation in the certificateless setting.展开更多
文摘Despite the large number of certificateless encryption schemes proposed recently, many of them have been found insecure under a practical attack, called malicious-but-passive KGC （Key Generation Center） attack. In this work we propose the first generic construction of certificateless encryption, which can be proven secure against malicious-but- passive KGC attacks in the standard model. In order to encrypt a message of any length, we consider the KEM/DEM （key encapsulation mechanism/data encapsulation mechanism） framework in the certificateless setting, and propose a generic construction of certificateless key encapsulation mechanism （CL-KEM） secure against malicious-but-passive KGC attacks in the standard model. It is based on an identity-based KEM, a public key encryption and a message authentication code. The high efficiency of our construction is due to the efficient implementations of these underlying building blocks, and is comparable to Bentahar et al.＇s CL-KEMs, which have only been proven secure under the random oracle model with no consideration of the malicious-but-passive KGC attack. We also introduce the notion of certificateless tag-based KEM （CL-TKEM）, which is an extension of Abe et al.＇s work to the certificateless setting. We show that an efficient CL-TKEM can be constructed by modifying our CL-KEM scheme. We also show that with a CL-TKEM and a data encapsulation mechanism secure under our proposed security model, an efficient certificateless hybrid encryption can be constructed by applying Abe et al.＇s transformation in the certificateless setting.
