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Cloud-based data storage service has drawn increasing interests from both academic and industry in the recent years due to its efficient and low cost management. Since it provides services in an open network, it is urgent for service providers to make use of secure data storage and sharing mechanism to ensure data confidentiality and service user privacy. To protect sensitive data from being compromised, the most widely used method is encryption. However, simply encrypting data (e.g., via AES) c...

Cloud computing enables enterprises and individu-1 als to outsource and share their data. This way, cloud computing 2 eliminates the heavy workload of local information infrastruc-3 ture. Attribute-based encryption has become a promising solution 4 for encrypted data access control in clouds due to the ability 5 to achieve one-to-many encrypted data sharing. Revocation is a 6 critical requirement for encrypted data access control systems. 7 After outsourcing the encrypted attribute-based ciphert...