Sanitizable signature scheme with privacy protection for electronic medical data sharing

Abstract

Electronic medicine has received more and more attention because of its ability to provide more efficient and better medical services. However, the characteristics of electronic medical networks make them more vulnerable to security threats such as data integrity and user privacy leakage. Traditional digital signatures cannot meet the diversity and privacy requirements of medical data applications. Sanitizable signatures incorporate sanitization capabilities into signatures to allow designated sanitizers to modify variable parts of a message in a controlled manner without the cooperation of the original signer. This paper uses the key-exposure free chameleon hash function to convert the data sanitization operation into using trapdoor keys to find collisions in the key-exposure free chameleon hash function, and builds a privacy-preserving sanitizable signature scheme. Security analysis and performance evaluation demonstrate that our new scheme achieves public verifiability, which greatly reduces computing costs while effectively ensuring data security and user privacy, and is especially suitable for electronic medical data sharing scenarios.

Keywords

• Electronic medical records
• Sanitizable signature
• Privacy protection
• Provable security