Abstract
Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) technology provides a new solution to address the security and fine-grained access control of traffic information in vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). However, in most CP-ABE schemes for VANETs, attribute revocation suffers from high system consumption and complex revocation operations, as well as from high computational overhead and low efficiency due to the use of bilinear pairwise operations. Based on this, this paper proposes a lightweight CP-ABE scheme that supports direct attribute revocation in VANETs. The scheme implements an agent-based direct attribute revocation mechanism by separating dynamic and static attributes of vehicle terminals, which reduces system consumption and simplifies the revocation operation process. The scheme uses scalar multiplication on elliptic curves instead of bilinear pairing operations and uses computational outsourcing techniques to reduce the terminal decryption cost and improve the efficiency of the scheme. The security and performance analysis shows that the overall efficiency of our scheme is better than the existing schemes under the premise of ensuring data confidentiality and integrity.
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