Efficient Privacy of Message Encryption Algorithm for Anonymous Receivers in E-Commerce

Abstract

protecting the privacy of message receivers is an important issue in pay services of e-commerce and the distribution of digital contents on the Internet. This paper proposes an efficient privacy of message encryption algorithm called PMEA for pay services of e-commerce. In PMEA, each of the receivers only needs to perform constant times of pairing computation to decrypt the received message. PMEA adopts bilinear pairings on elliptic curves to protect the privacy of message receivers, to ensure that an attacker or any other message receiver can not derive the identity of a message receiver such that the privacy of every receiver can be guaranteed. Detailed theoretical analysis proves that PMEA is secure and anonymous for message receivers. Keywordsprivacy message; encryption algorithm; anonymous receivers; E-commerce