EPREAR:An Efficient Attribute-Based Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme With Fast Revocation for Data Sharing in AIoT

The Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) is driving human society from “information” to “intelligence”, and the information technology industry is undergoing tremendous changes. However, AIoT data faces security threats such as leakage and illegal access when assisted by third parties. Therefore, some scholars use attribute-based proxy re-encryption (ABPRE) for secure sharing of data. However, the existing ABPRE schemes suffer from high computational overhead and inefficient attribution revocation, which seriously hinders practical application. To solve these problems, in this paper, we propose an efficient attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme with fast attribute revocation (EPREAR). We design a non-interactive zero-knowledge proof protocol based on blockchain to ensure the verifiability of the key during attribute revocation. Furthermore, we devise a boundless encryption and decryption mechanism to enable the system’s encryption and decryption with a fixed computation overhead, regardless of the size of the attribute set. And EPREAR possesses the ability to add infinite attributes without re-initializing the system. Finally, we perform theoretical and experimental analyses that show EPREAR has excellent computational performance. As a consequence, it has better application value in AIoT.