We propose a new biometric identity based encryption scheme (Bio-IBE),in which user biometric information is used to generate the public key with a fuzzy extractor.This is the first Bio-IBE scheme that achieves constant size ciphertext.This is also a scheme that is secure against the adaptive chosen ciphertext attack (CCA2).Details are presented along with a discussion of Shamir's threshold secret sharing and fuzzy extraction of biometrics,which is based on error correction codes.We also define a security model and prove that the security of the proposed scheme is reduced to the decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman (DBDH) assumption.The comparison shows that the proposed scheme has better efficiency and stronger security compared with the available Bio-IBE schemes.
