This disclosure provides a collaborative decryption
information processing method and apparatus based on a
change factor, which can be applied in the field of
cryptography. The method includes: in response to determining that a second communicating party has completed a decryption operation on the original information to be decrypted, determining an original sub-private key D1′ and a first
change factor W1, wherein the original sub-private key D1′ is used to perform partial decryption calculations on the original information to be decrypted; sending the first
change factor W1 to the second communicating party; receiving a second change factor W2 from the second communicating party;
processing the original sub-private key D1′ using the first change factor W1 and the second change factor W2 to obtain a current sub-private key D1; calculating the current information to be decrypted C using the current sub-private key D1 to obtain partially decrypted information M1; and sending the partially decrypted information M1 to the second communicating party so that the second communicating party can use the partially decrypted information M1 to calculate the current information to be decrypted C to obtain the
plaintext message M.