Thinking Towards a Pattern Language for Predicate Based Encryption Crypto-Systems

Author

De Muijnck-Hughes, Jan ; Duncan, Ishbel

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 June 2012

Firstpage

27

Lastpage

32

Abstract

Predicate Based Encryption (PBE) is a novel family of public key encryption schemes that allows for expressive, and fine-grained, access control to be integrated within the cryptographic process. Providing an efficient means to realise distributed encrypted access control. Security patterns allow for security problems and their solutions to be described concretely and precisely, and be applied directly within the software development process. Pattern languages provide a means to specify how a set of interconnected patterns can be used together to solve a set of related problems. This paper proposes the construction of a pattern language governing the design and deployment of PBE crypto-systems. An overview for the proposed language is given together with a discussion towards issues affecting its specification.

Keywords

authorisation; public key cryptography; software engineering; cryptographic process; distributed encrypted access control; interconnected patterns; pattern language; predicate based encryption cryptosystems; public key encryption; security patterns; security problems; software development process; Access control; Distributed databases; Encryption; Public key; Software; Access Control; Cryptography; Data Security; Pattern Languages; Security Patterns; Web Services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Security and Reliability Companion (SERE-C), 2012 IEEE Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gaithersburg, MD

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2670-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SERE-C.2012.34

Filename

6258442