Secure and Efficient Personal Health Record Scheme Using Attribute-Based Encryption

Abstract

With the rapid development of the cloud computing, personal health record (PHR) has attracted great attention of many researchers all over the world recently. However, PHR, which is often outsourced to be stored at a third party, has many security and efficiency issues. Therefore, the study of secure and efficient Personal Health Record Scheme to protect users' privacy in PHR files is of great significance. In this paper, we present a secure and efficient Personal Health Record scheme called SE-PHR. In the SE-PHR scheme, we divide the users into personal domain (PSD) and public domain (PUD) logically. In the PSD, the Key-Aggregate Encryption called KAE is exploited. For the users of PUD, we use outsource-able multi-authority attribute-based encryption (MA-ABE) to largely eliminate the overhead for users and support efficient attribute revocation without updating the user's private key. Our scheme also presents a new algorithm which enables dynamic modification of access policies. Function and performance testing results show the security and efficiency of the proposed SE-PHR.