The customary formulation of authenticated encryption (AE) requires the decrypting party to supply the correct nonce with each ciphertext it decrypts. To enable this, the nonce is often sent in the clear alongside the ciphertext. But doing this can forfeit anonymity and degrade usability. Anonymity can also be lost by transmitting associated data (AD) or a session-ID (used to identify the operative key). To address these issues, we introduce anonymous AE, wherein ciphertexts must conceal their origin even when they are understood to encompass everything needed to decrypt (apart from the receiver’s secret state). We formalize a type of anonymous AE we call anAE, anonymous nonce-based AE, which generalizes and strengthens conventional nonce-based AE, nAE. We provide an efficient construction for anAE, NonceWrap, from an nAE scheme and a blockcipher. We prove NonceWrap secure. While anAE does not address privacy loss through traffic-flow analysis, it does ensure that ciphertexts, now more expansively construed, do not by themselves compromise privacy.
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On Committing Authenticated-Encryption
We provide a strong definition for committing authenticated-
encryption (cAE), as well as a framework that encompasses earlier and
weaker definitions. The framework attends not only to what is committed
but also the extent to which the adversary knows or controls keys. We
slot into our framework strengthened cAE-attacks on GCM and OCB.
Our main result is a simple and efficient construction, CTX, that makes
a nonce-based AE (nAE) scheme committing. The transformed scheme
achieves the strongest security notion in our framework. Just the same,
the added computational cost (on top of the nAE scheme’s cost) is a
single hash over a short string, a cost independent of the plaintext’s
length. And there is no increase in ciphertext length compared to the
base nAE scheme. That such a thing is possible, let alone easy, upends the
(incorrect) intuition that you can’t commit to a plaintext or ciphertext
without hashing one or the other. And it motivates a simple and practical
tweak to AE-schemes to make them committing.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1717542
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10391723
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- EUROPEAN Symposium on Research in Computer Science: ESORICS 2022
- Volume:
- 13555
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 275 - 294
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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