Efficient Identity-Based Distributed Decryption Scheme for Electronic Personal Health Record Sharing System

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to the emergence of more and more novel applications in recent years. One of them is the e-health system, which can provide people with high-quality and convenient health care. Meanwhile, it is a key issue and challenge to protect the privacy and security of the user’s personal health record. Some cryptographic methods have been proposed such as encrypt user’s data before sharing it. However, it is complicated to share the data with multiple parties (doctors, health departments, etc.), due to the fact that data should be encrypted under each recipient’s keys. Although several $(t,n)$ threshold secret sharing schemes can share the data only need one encryption operation, there is a limitation that the decryption private key has to be reconstructed by one party. To offset this shortcoming, in this paper, we propose an efficient identity-based distributed decryption scheme for personal health record sharing system. It is convenient to share their data with multiple parties and does not require to reconstruct the decryption private key. We prove that our scheme is secure under chosen-ciphertext attack (CCA). Moreover, we implement our scheme by using the Java pairing-based cryptography (JPBC) library on a laptop and an Android phone. The experimental results show that our system is practical and effective in the electronic personal health record system.