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Cuckoo Commitments: Registration-Based Encryption and Key-Value Map Commitments for Large Spaces

Authors:
Dario Fiore , IMDEA Software Institute
Dimitris Kolonelos , IMDEA Software Institute & Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Paola de Perthuis , DIENS, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Inria, PSL University & Cosmian
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Conference: ASIACRYPT 2023
Abstract: Registration-Based Encryption (RBE) [Garg et al. TCC’18] is a public-key encryption mechanism in which users generate their own public and secret keys, and register their public keys with a central au- thority called the key curator. Similarly to Identity-Based Encryption (IBE), in RBE users can encrypt by only knowing the public parameters and the public identity of the recipient. Unlike IBE, though, RBE does not suffer the key escrow problem—one of the main obstacles of IBE’s adoption in practice—since the key curator holds no secret. In this work, we put forward a new methodology to construct RBE schemes that support large users identities (i.e., arbitrary strings). Our main result is the first efficient pairing-based RBE for large identities. Prior to our work, the most efficient RBE is that of [Glaeser et al. ePrint’ 22] which only supports small identities. The only known RBE schemes with large identities are realized either through expensive non-black- box techniques (ciphertexts of 3.6 TB for 1000 users), via a specialized lattice-based construction [Döttling et al. Eurocrypt’23] (ciphertexts of 2.4 GB), or through the more complex notion of Registered Attribute- Based Encryption [Hohenberger et al. Eurocrypt’23]. By unlocking the use of pairings for RBE with large identity space, we enable a further im- provement of three orders of magnitude, as our ciphertexts for a system with 1000 users are 1.7 MB. The core technique of our approach is a novel use of cuckoo hashing in cryptography that can be of independent interest. We give two main ap- plications. The first one is the aforementioned RBE methodology, where we use cuckoo hashing to compile an RBE with small identities into one for large identities. The second one is a way to convert any vector com- mitment scheme into a key-value map commitment. For instance, this leads to the first algebraic pairing-based key-value map commitments.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2023-33467,
  title={Cuckoo Commitments: Registration-Based Encryption and Key-Value Map Commitments for Large Spaces},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  author={Dario Fiore and Dimitris Kolonelos and Paola de Perthuis},
  year=2023
}