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Designated Server Identity-based Encryption with Conjunctive Keyword Search Scheme

  

  1. College of Computer and Information, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
  • Received:2016-09-07 Online:2017-04-20 Published:2017-05-08

Abstract: Public key encryption with keyword search (PKES) allows a user to send a trapdoor of some searched keywords to a server, which will enable the server locate all encrypted data containing the searched keywords. To remove the secure channel between the server and the receivers in the previous identity-based encryption with keyword search (IBEKS) schemes, Wu et al. proposed a designated server identity-based encryption with keyword search (dIBEKS) scheme. However, Wu et al.’s dIBEKS scheme can not satisfy the ciphertext indistinguishability. To overcome the security weakness in Wu et al.’s scheme and provide the functionality of multiple keywords searching, we put forward a designated server identity-based encryption with conjunctive keywords search scheme. The security analysis shows that the proposed scheme simultaneously satisfies the security of ciphertext indistinguishability, trapdoor indistinguishability and off-line keyword-guessing attack. Comparison analysis shows that the proposed scheme is more efficient and practical.

Key words: ciphertext search, designated server, identity-based encryption, multiple keywords encryption, conjunctive keywords search

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