Traceable and Privacy-Preserving Non-Interactive Data Sharing in Mobile Crowdsensing

Abstract

Data sharing is one of the key technologies, which provides the practice of making data collected from a crowd of mobile devices available to others using a cloud infrastructure, known as mobile crowdsensing (MCS). However, the collected data may contain sensitive information, and sharing them in public clouds without proper protection could cause serious security problems, such as privacy leakage, unauthorized access, and secret key abuse. To address the above issues, in this paper, we propose a Traceable and privacy-preserving non-Interactive Data Sharing (TIDS) scheme in mobile crowdsensing. Specifically, to achieve privacy-preserving fine-grained data sharing, an attribute-based access policy is generated by a data owner without interacting with data users in the TIDS. Furthermore, we design a ciphertext conversion mechanism to support flexible data sharing. Also, by utilizing traceable Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE), TIDS supports a trusted authority to trace malicious users who abuse their secret keys without incurring additional computational overhead. Security analysis demonstrates that TIDS can protect the confidentiality of the outsourced data. Experimental results show that TIDS can achieve efficient data sharing in mobile crowdsensing applications.