Registered Attribute-Based Encryption with Publicly Verifiable Certified Deletion, Everlasting Security, and More

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Main Authors: Murshid, Shayeef, Sarkar, Ramprasad, Mandal, Mriganka
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author Murshid, Shayeef
Sarkar, Ramprasad
Mandal, Mriganka
author_facet Murshid, Shayeef
Sarkar, Ramprasad
Mandal, Mriganka
contents Certified deletion ensures that encrypted data can be irreversibly deleted, preventing future recovery even if decryption keys are later exposed. Although existing works have achieved certified deletion across various cryptographic primitives, they rely on central authorities, leading to inherent escrow vulnerabilities. This raises the question of whether certified deletion can be achieved in decentralized frameworks such as Registered Attribute-Based Encryption (RABE) that combines fine-grained access control with user-controlled key registration. This paper presents the first RABE schemes supporting certified deletion and certified everlasting security. Specifically, we obtain the following: - We first design a privately verifiable RABE with Certified Deletion (RABE-CD) scheme by combining our newly proposed shadow registered ABE (Shad-RABE) with one-time symmetric key encryption with certified deletion. - We then construct a publicly verifiable RABE-CD scheme using Shad-RABE, witness encryption, and one-shot signatures, allowing any party to validate deletion certificates without accessing secret keys. - We also extend to privately verifiable RABE with Certified Everlasting Deletion (RABE-CED) scheme, integrating quantum-secure RABE with the certified everlasting lemma. Once a certificate is produced, message privacy becomes information-theoretic even against unbounded adversaries. -We finally realize a publicly verifiable RABE-CED scheme by employing digital signatures for the BB84 states, allowing universal verification while ensuring that deletion irreversibly destroys information relevant to decryption.
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spellingShingle Registered Attribute-Based Encryption with Publicly Verifiable Certified Deletion, Everlasting Security, and More
Murshid, Shayeef
Sarkar, Ramprasad
Mandal, Mriganka
Cryptography and Security
Certified deletion ensures that encrypted data can be irreversibly deleted, preventing future recovery even if decryption keys are later exposed. Although existing works have achieved certified deletion across various cryptographic primitives, they rely on central authorities, leading to inherent escrow vulnerabilities. This raises the question of whether certified deletion can be achieved in decentralized frameworks such as Registered Attribute-Based Encryption (RABE) that combines fine-grained access control with user-controlled key registration. This paper presents the first RABE schemes supporting certified deletion and certified everlasting security. Specifically, we obtain the following: - We first design a privately verifiable RABE with Certified Deletion (RABE-CD) scheme by combining our newly proposed shadow registered ABE (Shad-RABE) with one-time symmetric key encryption with certified deletion. - We then construct a publicly verifiable RABE-CD scheme using Shad-RABE, witness encryption, and one-shot signatures, allowing any party to validate deletion certificates without accessing secret keys. - We also extend to privately verifiable RABE with Certified Everlasting Deletion (RABE-CED) scheme, integrating quantum-secure RABE with the certified everlasting lemma. Once a certificate is produced, message privacy becomes information-theoretic even against unbounded adversaries. -We finally realize a publicly verifiable RABE-CED scheme by employing digital signatures for the BB84 states, allowing universal verification while ensuring that deletion irreversibly destroys information relevant to decryption.
title Registered Attribute-Based Encryption with Publicly Verifiable Certified Deletion, Everlasting Security, and More
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.07646