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Identity-based Matchmaking Encryption (IB-ME) is a new form of encryption that enables anonymous communication by specifying identities for both sender and receiver. Its applications in network services put forward higher requirements for the security of IB-ME. According to existing research, the security definition of IB-ME against chosen-plaintext attacks or chosen-ciphertext attacks is still vague. In this paper, we give the first clear definition of CCA-security of IB-ME and propose the firs...

It is tricky to determine whether two ciphertexts contain the same message when the messages are encrypted with different public keys. public key encryption with equality test (PKEET) addresses this problem without decryption. By integrating PKEET with identity-based encryption, identity-based encryption with equality test (IBEET) simplifies the certificate management in PKEET. In this paper, we first propose an IBEET scheme that can resist offline message recovery attacks (OMRA) and requires ne...

Anonymous Identity Based Encryption (AIBET) scheme allows a tracer to use the tracing key to reveal the recipient's identity from the ciphertext while keeping other data anonymous. This special feature makes AIBET a promising solution to distributed IoT data security since it can preserve both the privacy and the anonymity of a communication network but still give the server the ability to revoke the anonymity of some specific users in necessary situations (such as when their illegal behavi...

Spatial encryption (SE), which involves encryption and decryption with affine/vector objects, was introduced by Boneh and Hamburg at Asiacrypt 2008. Since its introduction, SE has been shown as a versatile and elegant tool for implementing many other important primitives such as (Hierarchical) Identity-based Encryption ((H)IBE), Broadcast (H)IBE, Attribute-based Encryption, and Forward-secure cryptosystems. This paper revisits SE toward a more compact construction in the lattice setting. In doin...

Wildcard identity-based encryption (WIBE) is a generalization of hierarchical identity-based encryption (HIBE) where a sender can simultaneously encrypt messages to a group of users matching a certain pattern, defined as a sequence of identities and wildcards. This special feature makes WIBE a promising solution to distributed IoT data security. In this paper, we propose the first construction of a post-quantum WIBE scheme. Our scheme is proven secure in the standard model, and it enjoys the sec...