Attribute-based encryption (ABE) is a promising technique for fine-grained access control of encrypted data in a cloud storage, however, decryption involved in the ABEs is usually too expensive for resource-constrained front-end users, which greatly hinders its practical popularity. In order to reduce the decryption overhead for a user to recover the plaintext, Green et al. suggested to outsource the majority of the decryption work without revealing actually data or private keys. To ensure the third-party service honestly computes the outsourced work, Lai et al. provided a requirement of verifiability to the decryption of ABE, but their scheme doubled the size of the underlying ABE ciphertext and the computation costs. Roughly speaking, their main idea is to use a parallel encryption technique, while one of the encryption components is used for the verification purpose. Hence, the bandwidth and the computation cost are doubled. In this paper, we investigate the same problem. In particular, we propose a more efficient and generic construction of ABE with verifiable outsourced decryption based on an attributebased key encapsulation mechanism, a symmetric-key encryption scheme and a commitment scheme. Then, we prove the security and the verification soundness of our constructed ABE scheme in the standard model. Finally, we instantiate our scheme with concrete building blocks. Compared with Lai et al.'s scheme, our scheme reduces the bandwidth and the computation costs almost by half.
IndexTerms-Attribute-based encryption, outsourced decryption, verifiability, access control.
The purpose of this study is to develop a novel scaffold, derived from fish scales, as an alternative functional material with sufficient mechanical strength for corneal regenerative applications. Fish scales, which are usually considered as marine wastes, were acellularized, decalcified and fabricated into collagen scaffolds. The microstructure of the acellularized scaffold was imaged by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The acellularization and decalcification treatments did not affect the naturally 3-dimentional, highly centrally-oriented micropatterned structure of the material. To assess the cytocompatibility of the scaffold with corneal cells, rabbit corneal cells were cultured on the scaffold and examined under SEM and confocal microscopy at different time periods. Rapid cell proliferation and migration on the scaffold were observed under SEM and confocal microscopy. The highly centrallyoriented micropatterned structure of the scaffold was beneficial for efficient nutrient and oxygen supply to the cells cultured in the three-dimensional matrices, and therefore it is useful for high-density cell seeding and spreading. Collectively, we demonstrate the superior cellular conductivity of the newly developed material. We provide evidences for the feasibility of the scaffold as a template for corneal cells growth and migration, and thus the fish scale-derived scaffold can be developed as a promising material for tissue-engineering of cornea.
The
noble transition metal dichalcogenide palladium diselenide
(PdSe2) is an ideal candidate material for broad-spectrum
photodetection owing to the large bandgap tunability, high mobility,
low thermal conductivity, and large Seebeck coefficient. In this study,
self-powered ultrabroadband PdSe2 photodetectors from the
visible–infrared to terahertz (THz) region driven by a mutiphysical
mechanism are reported. In the visible–infrared region, the
photogenerated electron–hole pairs in the PdSe2 body
are quickly separated by the built-in electric field at the metal–semiconductor
interface and achieve a photoresponsivity of 28 A·W–1 at 405 nm and 0.4 A·W–1 at 1850 nm. In the
THz region, PdSe2 photodetectors display a room-temperature
responsivity of 20 mA·W–1 at 0.10 THz and 5
mA·W–1 at 0.24 THz based on efficient production
of hot carriers in an antenna-assisted structure. Owing to the fast
response speed of ∼7.5 μs and low noise equivalent power
of ∼900 pW·Hz–1/2, high-resolution transmission
THz imaging is demonstrated under an ambient environment at room temperature.
Our research validates the great potential of PdSe2 for
broadband photodetection and provides a possibility for future optoelectronic
applications.
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