This article presents the design of a novel hybrid attributebased encryption scheme. The scheme is attribute-based, as it allows encrypting under logical combinations of attributes, i.e. properties that users satisfy. It is hybrid, as it combines ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE) with location-based encryption (LBE) on the level of symmetric keys. It can efficiently handle d...

Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) is an access control mechanism over encrypted data and well suited for secure group-based communication. However, it also suffers from the following problem, i.e., it is impossible to build all desired groups. For example, if two group members have exactly the same attributes, how to construct a group including only one of the two members? O...

In the cloud computing, attribute-based encryption and public key encryption with keyword search are two popular issues. Ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption is famous for its fine-grained access control. Keyword Search over encrypted files is an important function in the actual situation. We particularly concern the problem of revocation. Additionally, several solutions of the dynamic ...

Attribute based encryption (ABE) is a good way to achieve flexible and secure access control to data, and attribute revocation is the extension of the attribute-based encryption, and the keyword search is an indispensable part for cloud storage. The combination of both has an important application in the cloud storage. In this paper, we construct a searchable attribute-based encryption scheme w...

Cloud computing has come into our daily lives. The cloud server can provide powerful computing and storage capability as services. Since the decryption algorithm for attribute-based encryption needs a lot of computations, so with the help of cloud servers many attribute-based encryption schemes are designed for practical applications in cloud computing. To the best of our knowledge there does n...

We put forth a new mathematical framework called Isogenous Pairing Groups (IPG) and new intractable assumptions in the framework, the Isogenous DBDH (Isog-DBDH) assumption and its variants. Three operations, i.e., exponentiation, pairing and isogeny on elliptic curves are treated under a unified notion of trapdoor homomorphisms, and combinations of the operations have potential new cryptographi...

In this paper, we focus on traitor tracing scheme in attribute-based encryption (ABE) scenarios. A well-known concern in the setting of attribute-based encryption is that a user (or set of colluding users) can create a new key (or decryption device) by using his legal one and distribute it for malicious use. To mitigate this problem, we introduce the notion of attribute-based traitor tracing (A...