Ciphertext Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CPABE) emerged as a
trusted solution to enforce access control in an untrusted cloud
environment. CPABE allows data owners to implement one-to-many
encryptions by defining an access policy. The data user’s secret key
must comply with the access policy’s requirements before the key can
successfully decrypt the ciphertext. However, efficient revocation of
access rights in CPABE schemes has multiple challenges, particularly for
lightweight devices. Thus, extensive research to enforce and govern
access control is absolute need. The present study reviews the bilinear
pairing cryptography-based revocable CPABE schemes. The methodologies
used in the existing CPABE schemes to revoke users at the system and
attribute levels have been focused on in the current study. The module
proposed in Proxy-based and Collusion-Resistant Multi-Authority
Revocable CPABE (PCMR-CPABE) efficiently addresses the revocation issue.
The present paper extends the study on PCMR-CPABE and presents a
performance analysis of the module. The presented analysis has compared
the computational cost of the existing cutting-edge schemes with the
PCMR-CPABE module. The study has proved that the proposed module is
computationally inexpensive.