An Efficient and Fine-grained Big Data Access Control Scheme with Privacy-preserving Policy

 An Efficient and Fine-grained Big Data Access Control Scheme with Privacy-preserving Policy

 How to control the access of the huge amount of big data becomes a very challenging issue, especially when big data are stored in the cloud. Ciphertext-Policy Attributebased Encryption (CP-ABE) is a promising encryption technique that enables end-users to encrypt their data under the access policies defined over some attributes of data consumers and only allows data consumers whose attributes satisfy the access policies to decrypt the data. In CP-ABE, the access policy is attached to the ciphertext in plaintext form, which may also leak some private information about end-users.