FILE SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM USING ENCRYPTION AND DECRYPTION

• US 20090116645A1
• Filed: 10/16/2008
• Published: 05/07/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Original Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
• Inventors: JEONG, Ikrae, CHUNG, Kyoil, HONG, Dowon
• Application Number:
  US12/252,456
• Publication Number:
  US 20090116645A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 380/259
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/00 Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols

Abstract

Disclosed is a file sharing method and system using encryption and decryption. A client hashes keywords related to files using a symmetric key algorithm, and encodes the hashed keywords. Then, the client encodes the files using the hashed keywords, and uploads to a file sharing server a ciphertext D including an encoded file m and the encoded keywords KW₁, . . . , KW_n. In order to download a desired file, the client transmits to the file sharing server a query Q derived from the hashed keyword KW related to the desired file. The client receives from the file sharing server a set S_D of ciphertexts created from the same keyword as that queried, decodes the keyword, and decodes the file m using the decoded keyword KW.

Claims

1. A file sharing client system, comprising:

a keyword hashing unit that hashes keywords related to a file to be uploaded or downloaded;

a keyword encoder that encodes the keyword which is related to the file to be uploaded and is hashed by the keyword hashing unit, using a symmetric key algorithm;

a file encoder that uses the symmetric key algorithm to encode the file to be uploaded with the hashed keyword received from the keyword hashing unit; and

a first data transmitting/receiving unit that uploads, to a file sharing server, a ciphertext including the keyword encoded by the keyword encoder and the file encoded by the file encoder.

2. The file sharing client system of claim 1, further comprising:

a query requesting unit that outputs a query derived from the keyword that is related to the file to be downloaded and is hashed by the keyword hashing unit.

3. The file sharing client system of claim 2,

wherein the first data transmitting/receiving unit transmits the query received from the query requesting unit to the file sharing server, and downloads a set of ciphertexts from the file sharing server.

4. The file sharing client system of claim 3, further comprising:

a keyword decoder that decodes the keyword included in the set of ciphertexts using the symmetric key algorithm; and

a file decoder that decodes the encoded file included in the set of ciphertexts using the keyword decoded by the keyword decoder through the symmetric key algorithm.

5. The file sharing client system of claim 1,

wherein the keyword hashing unit secondarily hashes the keyword, and transmits the hashed keyword to the keyword encoder and the file encoder.

6. The file sharing client system of claim 2,

wherein the keyword hashing unit secondarily hashes the keyword, and transmits the hashed keyword to the query requesting unit.

7. A file sharing server system comprising:

a second data transmitting/receiving unit that receives, from a client, a ciphertext including an encoded file and an encoded keyword, and a query derived from a keyword related to a file to be downloaded, and transmits a set of ciphertexts to the client; and

a storage unit that stores the ciphertext received from the second data transmitting/receiving unit in a table.

8. The file sharing server system of claim 7, further comprising:

a query response processing unit that extracts, from the storage unit, the set of ciphertexts created from the same key as that related to the query received from the second data transmitting/receiving unit, and transmits the extracted set to the second data transmitting/receiving unit.

9. The file sharing server system of claim 8, further comprising:

a control unit that controls the second data transmitting/receiving unit, the storage unit, and the query response processing unit.

10. A file sharing method using encryption and decryption, the method comprising:

allowing a file sharing server to receive a ciphertext including an encoded file and an encoded keyword from a client;

allowing the file sharing server to store the ciphertext in a table of a storage unit; and

allowing the file sharing server to receive, from the client, a query derived from a keyword related to a file to be downloaded.

11. The file sharing method of claim 10, further comprising:

allowing the file sharing server to extract, from the storage unit, a set of ciphertexts created from the same keyword as that related to the received query, and transmit the extracted set to the client.

12. A file sharing method using encryption and decryption, the method comprising:

allowing a client to hash a keyword related to a file to be uploaded;

allowing the client to encode the hashed keyword using a symmetric key algorithm;

allowing the client to encode the file to be uploaded using the hashed keyword; and

allowing the client to upload a ciphertext including the encoded keyword and the encoded file to a file sharing server.

13. The file sharing method of claim 12, further comprising:

allowing the client to transmit, to the file sharing server, a query derived from a keyword related to a file to be downloaded.

14. The file sharing method of claim 13, further comprising:

allowing the client to download a set of ciphertexts from the file sharing server, decode the keyword included in the set of ciphertexts using the symmetric key algorithm, and decode the encoded file included in the set of ciphertexts using the decoded keyword through the symmetric key algorithm.

15. The file sharing method of claim 12,

wherein the uploading of the ciphertext includes:

selecting a random number R and a hashed keyword k_m that is used as a symmetric key for encoding the file;

generating a symmetric key k_i for encoding the hashed keyword k_m using the hashed value of a keyword KW and the random number R;

encoding the hashed keyword k_m using the symmetric key k_i to generate an encoded keyword c_i;

encoding the file to be uploaded using the hashed keyword k_m to generate an encoded file c; and

uploading the ciphertext including the encoded keyword c_i and the encoded file c to the file sharing server.

16. The file sharing method of claim 13,

wherein, in the transmitting of the query to the file sharing server, the keyword related to the file to be downloaded is secondarily hashed to derive the query.