A New Traitor Tracing

Shigeo MITSUNARI  Ryuichi SAKAI  Masao KASAHARA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E85-A    No.2    pp.481-484
Publication Date: 2002/02/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Information Security
Keyword: 
traitor tracing,  Weil pairing,  elliptic curve,  

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Summary: 
A traitor tracing scheme is a broadcast encryption scheme in which a provider can trace malicious authorized users who illegally gave their personal keys to unauthorized users. The conventional schemes have some problems; one of them is that there exists an upper bound on the sizes of keys to certify the security of the scheme against a collusion attack by many traitors, and so that the size of the header increases according to the increase of the bound. We shall propose a new traitor tracing scheme where the header size is independent of the number of traitors.