In this paper, we propose a new attribute-based proxy re-encryption scheme, where a semi-trusted proxy, with some additional information, can transform a ciphertext under a set of attributes into a new ciphertext under another set of attributes on the same message, but not vice versa, furthermore, its security was proved in the standard model based on decisional bilinear Diffie-Hellman assumption. This scheme can be used to realize fine-grained selectively sharing of encrypted data, but the general proxy re-encryption scheme severely can not do it, so the proposed scheme can be thought as an improvement of general traditional proxy re-encryption scheme.

Until now, there are numerous protocols that can achieve privacy-preserving trust negotiation between two parties involved, but there is no effective privacy-preserving trust negotiation schemes proposed between multi-users. In this paper, a privacy-preserving trust negotiation scheme with multi-parties is proposed, which can protect their credentials and access control policies during the procedure for establishing the trust between multi-strangers, and its privacy-preserving ability also is proved. These works extend the trust negotiation mechanism to multi-users, which can be thought as a substantial extension of the state-of-the-art in privacy-preserving trust negotiations between two parties involved