International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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Michael Clear

Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2019
PKC
Additively Homomorphic IBE from Higher Residuosity
Michael Clear Ciaran McGoldrick
We present an identity-Based encryption (IBE) scheme that is group homomorphic for addition modulo a “large” (i.e. superpolynomial) integer, the first such group homomorphic IBE. Our first result is the construction of an IBE scheme supporting homomorphic addition modulo a poly-sized prime e. Our construction builds upon the IBE scheme of Boneh, LaVigne and Sabin (BLS). BLS relies on a hash function that maps identities to $$e^{\text {th}}$$ residues. However there is no known way to securely instantiate such a function. Our construction extends BLS so that it can use a hash function that can be securely instantiated. We prove our scheme secure under the (slightly modified) $$e^{\text {th}}$$ residuosity assumption in the random oracle model and show that it supports a (modular) additive homomorphism. By using multiple instances of the scheme with distinct primes and leveraging the Chinese Remainder Theorem, we can support homomorphic addition modulo a “large” (i.e. superpolynomial) integer. We also show that our scheme for $$e > 2$$ is anonymous by additionally assuming the hardness of deciding solvability of a special system of multivariate polynomial equations. We provide a justification for this assumption by considering known attacks.
2015
CRYPTO

Coauthors

Michael Clear (2)
Ciaran McGoldrick (2)