Description

To be able to leverage big data to achieve enhanced strategic insight, process optimization and make informed decision, we need to be an efficient access control mechanism for ensuring end-to-end security of such information asset. Signcryption is one of several promising techniques to simultaneously achieve big data confidentiality and authenticity. However, signcryption suffers from the limitation of not being able to revoke users from a large-scale system efficiently. We put forward, in this paper, the first identity-based (ID-based) signcryption scheme with efficient revocation as well as the feature to outsource unsigncryption to enable secure big data communications be-tween data collectors and data analytical system(s). Our scheme is designed to achieve end-to-end confidentiality, authentication, non-repudiation, and integrity simultaneously, while providing scalable revocation functionality such that the overhead demanded by the private key generator (PKG) in the key-update phase only increases logarithmically based on the cardinality of users. Although in our scheme the majority of the unsigncryption tasks are outsourced to an untrusted cloud server, this approach does not affect the security of the proposed scheme. We then prove the security of our scheme, as well as demonstrating its utility using simulations.