Abstract: We propose a new biometric identity based encryption scheme (Bio-IBE), in which user biometric information is used to generate the public key with a fuzzy extractor. This is the first Bio-IBE scheme that achieves constant size ciphertext. This is also a scheme that is secure against the adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (CCA2). Details are presented along with a discussion of Shamir’s threshold secret sharing and fuzzy extraction of biometrics, which is based on error correction codes. We also define a security model and prove that the security of the proposed scheme is reduced to the decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman (DBDH) assumption. The comparison shows that the proposed scheme has better efficiency and stronger security compared with the available Bio-IBE schemes.

Key words: Public key cryptography, Identity-based, Data security, Biometric, Encryption

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