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  • This session has been presented April 10, 2015.

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    Duong-Hieu Phan - ENS

We consider a generalisation of the encryption from "one-to-one'' to "one-to-many'' communication, i.e. broadcast encryption. The objective is to allow a center to send secret messages to a large number of receivers. The security notion in “one-to-many” communications needs to be extended beyond the notion of confidentiality in “one-to-one” encryption in order to meet practical requirements. Two main functionalities are studied: (1) traitor tracing which identifies the malicious users who leak their secrets to a pirate and (2) revocation which prevents malicious users and/or non-legitimate ones from decrypting broadcasted information.<br/> In the first part of the talk, we focus on combinatorial schemes. We consider the Exclusive Set System (ESS) which has been originally designed to support revocation. We propose a method to integrate the black-box tracing capacity in ESS by introducing a technique called "shadow group testing''.<br/> The second part of the talk discusses the techniques for constructing algebraic schemes which can overcome some limitations of combinatorial schemes. We propose a lattice-based traitor tracing of which the security is based on the hardness of a new variant of the Learning With Errors problem, namely k-LWE (for k traitors). We then prove the hardness of the k-LWE problem which implies that the proposed traitor tracing scheme is asymptotically as efficient as the Regev LWE-based encryption. Our technique can also be used to improve the Boneh-Freeman reduction from SIS to k-SIS from exponential loss to polynomial loss in k (thus answer their open problem of a tighter reduction from SIS to k-SIS). We finally consider the combination of algebraic and combinatorial methods and discuss some promising directions.

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