An Attribute-Based Proxy Re-Encryption Scheme Supporting Revocable Access Control
Guanqun Zhao, Weijie Tan, Changgen Peng · Electronics · 2025
In the deep integration process between digital infrastructure and new economic forms, structural imbalance between the evolution rate of cloud storage technology and the growth rate of data-sharing demands has caused systemic security vulnerabilities such as blurred data sovereignty boundaries and nonlinear surges in privacy leakage risks. Existing academic research indicates current proxy re-encryption schemes remain insufficient for cloud access control scenarios characterized by diversified user requirements and personalized permission management, thus failing to fulfill the security needs of emerging computing paradigms. To resolve these issues, a revocable attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme supporting policy-hiding is proposed. Data owners encrypt data and upload it to the blockchain while concealing attribute values within attribute-based encryption access policies, effectively preventing sensitive information leaks and achieving fine-grained secure data sharing. Simultaneously, proxy re-encryption technology enables verifiable outsourcing of complex computations. Furthermore, the SM3 (SM3 Cryptographic Hash Algorithm) hash function is embedded in user private key generation, and key updates are executed using fresh random factors to revoke malicious users. Ultimately, the scheme proves indistinguishability under chosen-plaintext attacks for specific access structures in the standard model. Experimental simulations confirm that compared with existing schemes, this solution delivers higher execution efficiency in both encryption/decryption and revocation phases.