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Broadcast Encryption (BE) schemes allow a sender to efficiently encrypt messages for a large set of receivers. The currently most efficient BE schemes in the stateless receiver scenario are based on symmetric cryptography. However, a variety of business models with mutually mistrusting senders necessitates the use of asymmetric cryptography. We propose a generic framework that allows to transform a large class of symmetric BE schemes into asymmetric schemes, where the transformation employs an arbitrary hierarchical identity based encryption scheme. Applying our framework, we transform a recent symmetric scheme, called layered punctured interval scheme, for which no asymmetric version has yet been published. In addition, we give a formal proof of the chosen ciphertext security of our framework, which allows to generically transform any future symmetric BE scheme within the large class into a chosen-ciphertext-secure asymmetric scheme with the same efficiency measures.
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Huber, U., Sadeghi, AR. (2006). A Generic Transformation from Symmetric to Asymmetric Broadcast Encryption. In: Katsikas, S.K., López, J., Backes, M., Gritzalis, S., Preneel, B. (eds) Information Security. ISC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4176. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11836810_20
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