Accountable privacy preserving attribute based framework for authenticated encrypted access in clouds

In this paper, we propose an accountable privacy preserving attribute-based framework, called Ins-PAbAC, that combines attribute based encryption and attribute based signature techniques for securely sharing outsourced data contents via public cloud servers. The proposed framework presents several advantages. First, it provides an encrypted access control feature, enforced at the data owner’s side, while providing the desired expressiveness of...