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Title: Fine-grained data cross-domain access control policy based on ciphertext policy attribute encryption

Authors: Ying Xue; Gang Wang; Qian Zhang

Addresses: Department of Information Technology, Shaanxi Police College, Xi'An 710021, China ' Department of Information Technology, Shaanxi Police College, Xi'An 710021, China ' Department of Information Technology, Shaanxi Police College, Xi'An 710021, China

Abstract: As the big data technique rapidly develops, the demand for inter-agency cross-domain data sharing is growing, but there is a risk of unauthorised access in cross-domain data sharing. To this end, this paper first improves the ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption (MCACP-ABE), which achieves fine-grained protection of cross-domain data by authorising cross-domain third parties and attribute authority centres, and introduces the accountability tracking module. On this basis, fine-grained data cross-domain access control (AC) policies are designed. The policy designs a cross-domain AC structure based on MCACP-ABE, which realises fine-grained data access protection through a cross-domain negotiation component, a rule mapping component, and a cross-domain encryption component. The security analysis and simulation outcome imply that the offered policy not only satisfies indistinguishable security under chosen ciphertext attack (IND-CCA) but also has high cross-domain communication efficiency, which improves the security and usability of data cross-domain access.

Keywords: cross-domain access control; ciphertext policy attribute-based encryption; accountability tracking; cross-domain negotiation; rule mapping.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2025.145701

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2025 Vol.26 No.7, pp.63 - 78

Received: 10 Feb 2025
Accepted: 19 Feb 2025
Published online: 15 Apr 2025 *