Title :
Policy-based non-interactive outsourcing of computation using multikey FHE and CP-ABE
Author :
Clear, Michael ; McGoldrick, Ciaran
Author_Institution :
School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract :
We consider the problem of outsourced computation that operates on encrypted inputs supplied by multiple independent parties. To facilitate fine-grained access control, it would be desirable if each party could encrypt her input under an appropriate access policy. Moreover, a party should only be authorized to decrypt the result of a computation performed on a set of encrypted inputs if his credentials satisfy the composition of all input policies. There has been limited success so far achieving homomorphic encryption in the functional setting; that is, for primitives such as Ciphertext-Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CP-ABE) and Identity Based Encryption (IBE). We introduce a new primitive that captures homomorphic encryption with support for access policies and policy composition. We then present a generic construction using CP-ABE and multikey Fully-Homomorphic encryption (FHE). Furthermore, we show that a CP-ABE scheme that is homomorphic for circuits of polylogarithmic depth in some parameter m implies a CP-ABE scheme that is homomorphic for circuits of arity m and unbounded depth.
Keywords :
Access control; Algebra; Encryption; Public key; Syntactics; Access Policy Composition; CP-ABE; Homomorphic Encryption; Multikey FHE; Non-interactive Computing Delegation;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Reykjavik, Iceland