Private Identity-Based Encryption For Key Management

An Identity-Based Encryption (IBE) scheme uses public identities of entities for cryptographic purposes. Unlike that, we introduce a new scheme which is based on private identities, and we call it Private Identity-Based Encryption. A Private IBE scheme makes sure the adversaries cannot get the information that somebody uses for encryption in order to decrypt the data. Moreover, thanks to using identities as secret keys, an user-friendly system can be designed to support users in protecting data without storing any keys privately. This allows builds decentralized applications to manage keys that is often long and difficult to remember.