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Cryptanalysis of Two Efficient HIBE Schemes in the Standard Model
In Informatica 32 (2008), Ren and Gu proposed an anonymous
hierarchical identity based encryption scheme based on the q-ABDHE
problem with full security in the standard model. Later in
Indocrypt\u2708, they proposed another secure hierarchical identity
based encryption scheme based on the q-TBDHE problem with full
security in the standard model. They claimed that their schemes have
short parameters, high efficiency and tight reduction. However, in
this paper we give attacks to show their schemes are insecure at
all. Concretely, from any first level private key, the adversary can
easily derive a proper ``private key\u27\u27 which can decrypt any
ciphertexts for the target identity. That is to say, one key
generation query on any first level identity excluding the target\u27s
first level identity, is enough to break their schemes