Fully key-homomorphic encryption, arithmetic circuit ABE and compact garbled circuits

Dan Boneh, Craig Gentry, Sergey Gorbunov, Shai Halevi, Valeria Nikolaenko, Gil Segev, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

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Abstract

We construct the first (key-policy) attribute-based encryption (ABE) system with short secret keys: the size of keys in our system depends only on the depth of the policy circuit, not its size. Our constructions extend naturally to arithmetic circuits with arbitrary fan-in gates thereby further reducing the circuit depth. Building on this ABE system we obtain the first reusable circuit garbling scheme that produces garbled circuits whose size is the same as the original circuit plus an additive poly(λ,d) bits, where λ is the security parameter and d is the circuit depth. All previous constructions incurred a multiplicative poly(λ) blowup. We construct our ABE using a new mechanism we call fully key-homomorphic encryption, a public-key system that lets anyone translate a ciphertext encrypted under a public-key x into a ciphertext encrypted under the public-key (f(x),f) of the same plaintext, for any efficiently computable f. We show that this mechanism gives an ABE with short keys. Security of our construction relies on the subexponential hardness of the learning with errors problem. We also present a second (key-policy) ABE, using multilinear maps, with short ciphertexts: an encryption to an attribute vector x is the size of x plus poly(λ,d) additional bits. This gives a reusable circuit garbling scheme where the garbled input is short.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology, EUROCRYPT 2014 - 33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages533-556
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783642552199
DOIs
StatePublished - 2014
Event33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2014 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 11 May 201415 May 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8441 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2014
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period11/05/1415/05/14

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