Personal health records sharing scheme based on attribute based signcryption with data integrity verifiable

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Obiri, Isaac Amankona | Xia, Qi | Xia, Hu | Affum, Eric | Abla, Smahi | Gao, Jianbin^{; *}

Affiliations: School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China

Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author. E-mail: gaojb@uestc.edu.cn.

Abstract: The distribution of personal health records (PHRs) via a cloud server is a promising platform as it reduces the cost of data maintenance. Nevertheless, the cloud server is semi-trusted and can expose the patients’ PHRs to unauthorized third parties for financial gains or compromise the query result. Therefore, ensuring the integrity of the query results and privacy of PHRs as well as realizing fine-grained access control are critical key issues when PHRs are shared via cloud computing. Hence, we propose new personal health records sharing scheme with verifiable data integrity based on B+ tree data structure and attribute-based signcryption scheme to achieve data privacy, query result integrity, unforgeability, blind keyword search, and fine-grained access control.

Keywords: Attribute based signcryption, signcrypt, unsigncrypt, personal health records, keyword search, B+ tree

DOI: 10.3233/JCS-210045

Journal: Journal of Computer Security, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 291-324, 2022