Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its ap...Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its application is how to revoke the attributes of the users, though some ABE schemes have realized revocation, they mostly focused on the user revocation that revokes the user＇s whole attributes, or attribute revocation under the indirect revocation model such that all the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation. In this paper, we define the model of CP-ABE supporting the attribute revocation under the direct revocation model, in which the revocation list is embed in the ciphertext and none of the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation process. Then we propose a generic construction, and prove its security with the decision q-BDHE assumption.展开更多
The rapid development of personal health records(PHR)systems enables an individual to collect,create,store and share his PHR to authorized entities.Health care systems within the smart city environment require a patie...The rapid development of personal health records(PHR)systems enables an individual to collect,create,store and share his PHR to authorized entities.Health care systems within the smart city environment require a patient to share his PRH data with a multitude of institutions’repositories located in the cloud.The cloud computing paradigm cannot meet such a massive transformative healthcare systems due to drawbacks including network latency,scalability and bandwidth.Fog computing relieves the load of conventional cloud computing by availing intermediate fog nodes between the end users and the remote servers.Assuming a massive demand of PHR data within a ubiquitous smart city,we propose a secure and fog assisted framework for PHR systems to address security,access control and privacy concerns.Built under a fog-based architecture,the proposed framework makes use of efficient key exchange protocol coupled with ciphertext attribute based encryption(CP-ABE)to guarantee confidentiality and fine-grained access control within the system respectively.We also make use of digital signature combined with CP-ABE to ensure the system authentication and users privacy.We provide the analysis of the proposed framework in terms of security and performance.展开更多
文摘Attribute-based encryption is drawing more attention with its inherent attractive properties which are potential to be widely used in the newly developing cloud computing. However, one of the main obstacles for its application is how to revoke the attributes of the users, though some ABE schemes have realized revocation, they mostly focused on the user revocation that revokes the user＇s whole attributes, or attribute revocation under the indirect revocation model such that all the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation. In this paper, we define the model of CP-ABE supporting the attribute revocation under the direct revocation model, in which the revocation list is embed in the ciphertext and none of the users＇ private keys will be affected by the revocation process. Then we propose a generic construction, and prove its security with the decision q-BDHE assumption.
基金the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for funding this work through Vice Deanship of Scientific Research Chairs:Chair of Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
文摘The rapid development of personal health records(PHR)systems enables an individual to collect,create,store and share his PHR to authorized entities.Health care systems within the smart city environment require a patient to share his PRH data with a multitude of institutions’repositories located in the cloud.The cloud computing paradigm cannot meet such a massive transformative healthcare systems due to drawbacks including network latency,scalability and bandwidth.Fog computing relieves the load of conventional cloud computing by availing intermediate fog nodes between the end users and the remote servers.Assuming a massive demand of PHR data within a ubiquitous smart city,we propose a secure and fog assisted framework for PHR systems to address security,access control and privacy concerns.Built under a fog-based architecture,the proposed framework makes use of efficient key exchange protocol coupled with ciphertext attribute based encryption(CP-ABE)to guarantee confidentiality and fine-grained access control within the system respectively.We also make use of digital signature combined with CP-ABE to ensure the system authentication and users privacy.We provide the analysis of the proposed framework in terms of security and performance.
