Fair and Verifiable Identity-Based Broadcast Proxy Re-Encryption With Designated Sender Feasible for Medical Internet of Things

Abstract

With the development of big data, cloud computing is widely used by individual and enterprise users due to its powerful computing and storage capabilities. How to share the encrypted data stored in cloud servers flexibly to a group of users and provide effective access control to the users is a hot topic in current research. For that, this paper proposes fair and verifiable identity-based broadcast proxy re-encryption with designated sender (FV-IBBPRE-DS) for Medical Internet of Things (MIoT), which gives the system model, formal definition, and security model of FV-IBBPRE-DS, and constructs a concrete FV-IBBPRE-DS scheme. The data owner in the FV-IBBPRE-DS scheme is able to designate a sender, which is given the decryption privilege of the encrypted data to a set of receivers. The scheme ensures that the participating entities perform the process of data sharing fairly and are able to verify the consistency of the ciphertexts. The FV-IBBPRE-DS scheme achieves chosen ciphertext attack security. The performance analysis demonstrates that the scheme in this paper has significant advantages in re-encrypted ciphertext generation and decryption phase, and can be applied to resource-constrained MIoT devices.