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Broadcast encryption with dealership

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In this paper, we introduce a new cryptographic primitive called broadcast encryption with dealership. This notion, which has never been discussed in the cryptography literature, is applicable to many realistic broadcast services, for example subscription-based television service. Specifically, the new primitive enables a dealer to bulk buy the access to some products (e.g., TV channels) from the broadcaster, and hence, it will enable the dealer to resell the contents to the subscribers with a cheaper rate. Therefore, this creates business opportunity model for the dealer. We highlight the security consideration in such a scenario and capture the security requirements in the security model. Subsequently, we present a concrete scheme, which is proven secure under the decisional bilinear Diffie–Hellman exponent and the Diffie–Hellman exponent assumptions.

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  1. Centre for Computer and Information Security Research, School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia

    Clémentine Gritti, Willy Susilo & Thomas Plantard

  2. Department of Information and Computer Science, School of Science and Technology, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

    Kaitai Liang

  3. The Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Duncan S. Wong

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Gritti, C., Susilo, W., Plantard, T. et al. Broadcast encryption with dealership. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 15, 271–283 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-015-0285-x

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