由于属性基加密(attribute-based encryption,简称ABE)机制以属性为公钥,将密文和用户私钥与属性关联,能够灵活地表示访问控制策略,从而极大地降低了数据共享细粒度访问控制带来的网络带宽和发送结点的处理开销.因此,ABE 在细粒度访问控制领域具有广阔的应用前景.在对基本ABE 机制及其两种扩展:密钥-策略ABE(KP-ABE)和密文-策略ABE(CP-ABE)进行深入研究、分析后,针对ABE 中的CP-ABE 机制访问结构的设计、属性密钥撤销、ABE 的密钥滥用、多授权机构等难点问题进行了深入探讨和综合分析,对比了现有研究工作的功能及开销.最后讨论了ABE 未来需进一步研究的问题和主要研究方向.

Attribute-Based encryption (ABE) scheme takes attributes as the public key and associates the ciphertext and user’s secret key with attributes, so that it can support expressive access control policies. This dramatically reduces the cost of network bandwidth and sending node’s operation in fine-grained access control of data sharing. Therefore, ABE has a broad prospect of application in the area of fine-grained access control. After analyzing the basic ABE system and its two variants, Key-Policy ABE (KP-ABE) and Ciphertext-Policy ABE (CP-ABE), this study elaborates the research problems relating to ABE systems, including access structure design for CP-ABE, attribute key revocation, key abuse and multi-authorities ABE with an extensive comparison of their functionality and performance. Finally, this study discusses the need-to-be solved problems and main research directions in ABE.

国家高技术研究发展计划(863)(2009AA01A403-2); 国家重点基础研究发展计划(973)(2009CB320503)