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Proxy Re-Encryption based on standard ElGamal

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ElGamal-based BBS proxy re-encryption is well known, but it works on a variant of ElGamal like ($mg^r$,$g^{xr})$ not standard ElGamal ($g^r$,$mg^{xr}$). After reading the original paper, I found the authors mentioned that the proxy scheme can be extended to work with standard EIGamal encryption. But unfortunately they do not describe it in detail.

I think it may looks like:

  1. Alice encrypts $m$ as $(g^{r_a},c_a = mg^{x_ar_a})$, selects another random $r_b$, and computes $r_{a->b} = y_b^{r_b} * (g^{x_ar_a})^{-1}$. Then Alice sends $(c_a, g^{r_b}, r_{a->b})$ to the proxy.
  2. The proxy re-encrypts $m$ as $c_b = c_a* r_{a->b}$, and sends $(g^{r_b}, c_b)$ to Bob.
  3. Bob can decrypt the cyphertext like standard ElGamal.

But I searched across the web and found nothing like this. Is there something wrong with it? Is it unsafe?

Thanks for any help or information.

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