Everything about Attribute-based encryption

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Attribute-based encryptionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption With Data Integrity in CloudsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Invitation to Computer ScienceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Attribute-Based Encryption With Verifiable Outsourced DecryptionCited 395 times
5. Go sideways: Brent WatersA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Functional encryptionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Attribute-Based Encryption With Verifiable Outsourced Decryption

  Junzuo Lai, Robert H. Deng, Chaowen Guan · 2013 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 395 citations

• Securely Outsourcing Attribute-Based Encryption with Checkability

  Jin Li, Xinyi Huang, Jingwei Li · 2014 · IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems · 376 citations

• Attribute-Based Encryption for Circuits

  Sergey Gorbunov, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Hoeteck Wee · 2015 · Journal of the ACM · 74 citations

• Enhancing Attribute-Based Encryption with Attribute Hierarchy

  Jin Li, Qian Wang, Cong Wang · 2010 · Mobile Networks and Applications · 68 citations

• Attribute-Based Encryption Schemes

  Jin-Shu SU, Dan CAO, Xiao-Feng WANG · 2011 · Journal of Software · 44 citations

• Protected Health Care Application In Cloud using Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption And Hierarchical Attribute-Based Encryption

  Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Saveetha University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India., I. Sudha, R. Nedunchelian · 2019 · International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering · 32 citations

• Revocable and Decentralized Attribute-Based Encryption

  Hui Cui, Robert H. Deng · 2016 · The Computer Journal · 29 citations

• Attribute-Based Searchable Encryption: A Survey

  Li Yan, Gaozhou Wang, Tian Yin · 2024 · Electronics · 29 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption With Data Integrity in Clouds

  Chunpeng Ge, Willy Susilo, Joonsang Baek · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · 163 citations

• Efficient Revocable Attribute-Based Encryption With Verifiable Data Integrity

  Shaobo Chen, Jiguo Li, Yichen Zhang · 2024 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 103 citations

• Multiauthority Attribute-Based Encryption for Assuring Data Deletion

  Jiguo Li, Ruyuan Zhang, Yang Lu · 2023 · IEEE Systems Journal · 34 citations

• Revocable attribute-based encryption from standard lattices

  Fucai Luo, Saif Al-Kuwari, Haiyan Wang · 2023 · Computer Standards & Interfaces · 28 citations

• Puncturable identity-based and attribute-based encryption from lattices

  Priyanka Dutta, Willy Susilo, Dung Hoang Duong · 2022 · Theoretical Computer Science · 25 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Invitation to Computer ScienceG. Michael Schneider, Judith L. Gersting · 1995
• The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
• 📕Attribute-Based Encryption and Access ControlDijiang Huang, Qiuxiang Dong · 2020
• 📕Attribute-Based EncryptionQi Xia, Jianbin Gao · 2023
• Information and Communications SecurityTat Wing Chim · 2012
• Information Security Practice and ExperienceRobert H. Deng · 2013
• Smart Card Research and Advanced ApplicationsStefan Mangard · 2013
• 📕Attribute-Based Encryption for Boolean FormulasLucas Kowalczyk · 2019

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