Unlinkable Secret Handshakes and Key-Private Group Key Management Schemes Author: Stanislaw Jarecki and Xiaomin Liu University of California, Irvine From: ACNS 2007, LNCS 4521,pp ,2007 Reporter: 張延詮 2011/12/6 1

OUTLINE Introduction Scheme Conclusion 2

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes an Unlinkable Secret Handshake scheme is a perfectly private authentication method in the PKI setting: One can establish authenticated communication with parties that possess the credentials required by one’s policy,and at the same time one’s affiliation and identity remain perfectly secret to everyone except of the parties to whom one wants to authenticate. EX: FBI- 3

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes Definition PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) In a traditional public key cryptography (PKC), a user Alice signs a message using her private key. A verifier Bob verifies the signature using Alice's public key. However, the public key is just merely a random string and it does not provide authentication of the signer by itself. 4

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes Definition PKI ( Public Key Infrastructure) This problem can be solved by incorporating a certifcate generated by a trusted party called the Certifcate Authority (CA) that provides an unforgeable signature and trusted link between the public key and the identity of the signer. The hierarchical framework is called the public key infrastructure (PKI), which is responsible to issue and manage the certifcate (chain). In this case,prior to the verification of a signature, Bob needs to obtain Alice's certifcate in advance and verify the validity of her certifcate. If it is valid, Bob extracts the corresponding public key which is then used to verify the signature. In the point of view of a verifier, it takes two verifcation steps for independent signatures. 5

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes affiliation hiding- Unlinkability- policy hiding- 6

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes Definition policy hiding EXAMPLE : Bob is a bank offering certain special-rate loans and Alice would like to know whether she is eligible for such a loan before she applies. Alice has a digital driver license certificate issued by the state authority; the certificate contains her birth-date, address, and other attribute data. Alice has also an income certificate issued by her employer documenting her salary and the starting date of her employment. Bob determines whether Alice is eligible for a special- rate loan based on Alice’s attribute information. For example, Bob may require that one of the following two conditions holds: 7

Introduction Unlinkable Secret Handshakes Definition policy hiding For example, Bob may require that one of the following two conditions holds: (1) Alice is over 30 years old, has an income of no less than $43K, and has been in the current job for over six months; (2) Alice is over 25 years old, has an income of no less than $45K, and has been in the current job for at least one year. Bob is willing to reveal that his loan-approval policy uses the applicant’s birth-date, current salary, and the length of the current employment; however, Bob considers the detail of his policy to be commercial secret and does not want to reveal it to others 8

Introduction Key-Private Group Key Management is a stateful version of the publickey broadcast encryption 9

Introduction Key-Private Group Key Management In a Public-Key GKM scheme we consider a group of players administered by a group manager, who creates a public (encryption) key, issues private (decryption) keys to the group members, and can revoke any member by broadcasting a revocation information, which is used to update both the public and the private keys. 10

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Scheme Unlinkable Handshakes from Key-Private Group Key Management H : {0, 1} ∗ → {0, 1}k is a hash function modeled as random oracle in the security analysis. Each player’s inputs in the protocol is a triple (SK,TPK, resp/init). SK is that player’s GKM key. TPK is the public key. resp/init is the player’s role in the protocol. (initial/response) PKGroup(TPK) identifies the group of the public key. 12

Scheme SKGroup(SK) = PKGroup(TPK) 13

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Conclusion The main ingredient in our solution is a construction of a key-private publickey group key management [PKGKM], which is a stateful version of the publickey broadcast encryption. 15