Public key encryption supporting plaintext equality test and user-specified authorization

Qiang Tang

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    Abstract

    In this paper, we investigate a category of public key encryption schemes that supports plaintext equality test and userspecified authorization. With this new primitive, two users, who possess their own public/private key pairs, can issue token(s) to a proxy to authorize it to perform plaintext equality test from their ciphertexts. We provide a formal formulation for this primitive and present a construction with provable security in our security model. To mitigate the risks against the semi-trusted proxies, we enhance the proposed cryptosystem by integrating the concept of computational client puzzles. As a showcase, we construct a secure personal health record application on the basis of this primitive.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)1351-1362
    Number of pages12
    JournalSecurity and communication networks
    Volume5
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Dec 2012

    Keywords

    • Equality test
    • Public key encryption
    • SCS-Cybersecurity
    • Authorization

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