Substring-searchable attribute-based encryption and its application for IoT devices

Abstract

With the development of big data and cloud computing technology, more and more users choose to store data on cloud servers, which brings much convenience to their management and use of data, and also the risk of data leakage. A common method to prevent data leakage is to encrypt the data before uploading it, but the traditional encryption method is often not conducive to data sharing and querying. In this paper, a new kind of Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) scheme, which is called the Sub-String Searchable ABE (SSS-ABE) scheme, is proposed for the sharing and querying of the encrypted data. In the SSS-ABE scheme, the data owner encrypts the data under an access structure, and only the data user who satisfies the access structure can query and decrypt it. The data user can make a substring query on the whole ciphertext without setting keywords in advance. In addition, the outsourcing method is also introduced to reduce the local computation of the decryption process so that the outsourcing SSS-ABE scheme can be applied to IoT devices.