Sharing of Encrypted Files in Blockchain Made Simpler

S. Sharmila Deva Selvi (), Arinjita Paul (), Siva Dirisala (), Saswata Basu () and C. Pandu Rangan ()
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S. Sharmila Deva Selvi: IIT
Arinjita Paul: IIT
Siva Dirisala: 0chain LLC
Saswata Basu: 0chain LLC
C. Pandu Rangan: IIT

A chapter in Mathematical Research for Blockchain Economy, 2020, pp 45-60 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Recently, blockchain technology has attracted much attention of the research community in several domains requiring transparency of data accountability, due to the removal of intermediate trust assumptions from third parties. One such application is enabling file sharing in blockchain enabled distributed cloud storage. Proxy re-encryption is a cryptographic primitive that allows such file sharing by re-encrypting ciphertexts towards legitimate users via semi-trusted proxies, without them learning any information about the underlying message. To facilitate secure data sharing in the distributed cloud, it is essential to construct efficient proxy re-encryption protocols. In this paper, we introduce the notion of proxy self re-encryption (SE-PRE) that is highly efficient, as compared to the existing PRE schemes in the literature. We show that our self encryption scheme is provably CCA secure based on the DLP assumption and our proxy re-encryption scheme with self encryption is CCA secure under the hardness of the Computational Diffie Hellman (CDH) and Discrete Logarithm (DLP) assumption. Our novel encryption scheme, called self encryption, has no exponentiation or costly pairing operation. Even the re-encryption in SE-PRE does not have such operations and this facilitates the service provider with efficiency gain.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37110-4_4

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