Parallel Key Insulated ID-Based Public Key Cryptographic Primitive with Outsourced Equality Test

Abstract

Parallel key-insulation allows the use of multiple helper keys to protect pri vate decryption keys during secret decryption key updates. This approach prevents decryption key leakage or exposure in insecure environment. We combined parallel key-insulated encryption (PKIE) with multiple helper keys and identity-based encryption with the equality test (IBE-ET) to obtain pa rallel key insulated ID-based public key encryption with outsourced equiva lent test (PKI-IBPKE-ET). The scheme inherits the advantages of identi ty-based encryption (IBE), which simplifies certificate management for public key encryption. Furthermore, the parallel key-insulation with multiple helper mechanism was introduced in our scheme, which perfectly reduced the pos sibility of helper key exposure. Our scheme will enable the protection and pe riodic update of decryption keys in insecure environment. Our scheme achieves a weak indistinguishable identity chosen ciphertext (W-IND-ID-CCA) secu rity in the random oracle model. Ultimately, it is observed that our scheme is feasible and practical through the experimental simulation and theoretical analysis