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Table 1 Acronyms used in this paper

From: Server-aided immediate and robust user revocation mechanism for SM9

Acronym

Description

Acronym

Description

MPK

master public key

MSK

master secret key

IDi

the i-th user’s identity

\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{\sf SK}_{{\sf ID}_{i}}\)

the i-th user’s secret key

ctr

the time counter

SSKctr

the server secret key related to ctr

\(\mathbb {L}\)

the user revocation list

m

message to be encrypted

K

the derived symmetric key

\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{\sf CT}_{{\sf ID}_{i}}\)

ciphertext that sent to the i-th user

\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{\sf CT}_{{\sf ID}_{i}, {\sf ctr}}\)

ciphertext that sent to i-th user related to ctr

\(\phantom {\dot {i}\!}{\sf TCT}_{{\sf ID}_{i}}\)

transformed ciphertext that sent to i-th user