Toward Proxy Re-encryption From Learning with Errors in the Exponent

Abstract

Proxy re-encryption (PRE) is an important cryptographic primitive used for private information sharing. However, the recent advance in quantum computer has potentially crippled its security, as the traditional decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH)-based PRE is venerable to the quantum attack. Thus, learning with errors (LWE)-based PRE schemes, as a kind of latticebased construction with the inherent quantum-resistant property, has attracted special research interest. Unfortunately, the main drawback of lattice-based public key encryption scheme is noise management after multiplication evaluation. Many cryptographers have been devoted to controlling the expansion of noise. In this line of work, Dagdelen-Gajek-G¨opfert (DGG) put forth the notion of learning with errors in the exponent (LWEE) which is based on lattice and group-theoretic assumption, meanwhile demonstrated a paradigm for constructing efficient quantum resistance public key schemes. In this paper, on top of DGG, we construct a single-bit, single-hop and unidirectional LWEE- based PRE scheme with indistinguishable chosen plaintext attack (IND-CPA) security. To the best of our knowledge, our scheme is the first LWEE-based PRE scheme.