EMA-LAB: Efficient multi authorisation level attribute based access control

Nesrine Kaaniche, Sana Belguith, Giovanni Russello

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Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the trend of increasingly relying on remote and distributed infrastructures. This increases the complexity of access control to data, where access control policies should be flexible and distinguishable among users with different privileges. In this paper, we present EMA-LAB, a novel Multi Authorisation Level Attribute Based Access Control with short ciphertexts size. It relies on the usage of a constant-size threshold attribute based encryption scheme. The EMA-LAB scheme is multifold. First, it ensures a selective access to encrypted data with respect to different security levels. Second, the proposed construction protects the secrecy of enciphered contents against malicious adversaries, even in case of colluding users. Third, EMA-LAB relies on low computation and communication processes, mainly for resource-constrained devices, compared to most closely related schemes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNetwork and System Security - 12th International Conference, NSS 2018, Proceedings
EditorsMan Ho Au, Xiapu Luo, Jin Li, Kamil Kluczniak, Siu Ming Yiu, Cong Wang, Aniello Castiglione
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages187-201
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783030027438
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event12th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2018 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 27 Aug 201829 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11058 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Network and System Security, NSS 2018
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period27/08/1829/08/18

Keywords

  • Access control
  • Attribute based encryption with short ciphertext
  • Multi-level threshold scheme

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