Multiplex Encryption a Practical Approach to Encrypting Multi-Recipient Emails

Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Publication Date

12-2005

Abstract

Efficiently protecting the privacy of multi-recipient emails is not as trivial as it seems. The approach proposed by S/MIME is to concatenate all ciphertexts. However, it suffers from poor scalability due to its linear computation and communication cost. In this paper, we propose a new practical and secure scheme, called multiplex encryption. By combining the ideas of identity-based mediated RSA and re-encryption mix network, our framework only requires constant computation and communication cost to encrypt a multi-recipient email.

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Information Security and Trust

Publication

Information and Communications Security: 7th International Conference, ICICS 2005, Beijing, China, December 10-13: Proceedings

Volume

3783

First Page

269

Last Page

279

ISBN

9783540320999

Identifier

10.1007/11602897_23

Publisher

Springer Verlag

City or Country

Beijing, China

Additional URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11602897_23

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