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Distributed Broadcast Encryption from Bilinear Groups

Authors:
Dimitris Kolonelos , IMDEA Software Institute & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Giulio Malavolta , Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Bocconi University
Hoeteck Wee , NTT Research and École Normale Supérieure - PSL
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Conference: ASIACRYPT 2023
Abstract: Distributed broadcast encryption (DBE) improves on the traditional notion of broadcast encryption by eliminating the key-escrow problem: In a DBE system, users generate their own secret keys non- interactively without the help of a trusted party. Then anyone can broad- cast a message for a subset S of the users, in such a way that the resulting ciphertext size is sublinear in (and, ideally, independent of) |S|. Unfor- tunately, the only known constructions of DBE requires heavy crypto- graphic machinery, such as general-purpose indistinguishability obfusca- tion, or come without a security proof. In this work, we formally show that obfuscation is not necessary for DBE, and we present two practical DBE schemes from standard assumptions in prime-order bilinear groups. Our constructions are conceptually simple, satisfy the strong notion of adaptive security, and are concretely efficient. In fact, their performance, in terms of number of group elements and efficiency of the algorithms, is comparable with that of traditional (non distributed) broadcast encryption schemes from bilinear groups.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2023-33464,
  title={Distributed Broadcast Encryption from Bilinear Groups},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Dimitris Kolonelos and Giulio Malavolta and Hoeteck Wee},
  year=2023
}