TL;DR: A certificateless public key authenticated encryption with keyword search scheme is proposed, which is provably secure against inside keyword guessing attack (IKGA) and demonstrates that it is more secure and effective compared with other certificatelesspublic key encryption with keywords search schemes.
Abstract: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) integrates various types of intelligent terminals, mobile devices, and communication technologies to enable the upgrade of traditional industries to intelligent industries. IIoT relies on the powerful data processing capabilities of cloud computing to reduce the cost of various on-demand services as per the requirements of users. However, the privacy and confidentiality of the outsourced data should be protected in this environment because the data are typically “handled” by a third-party service provider. An encryption technique can guarantee the confidentiality of the data but it limits data retrieval due to its innate “all-or-nothing” decryption feature. To apply encryption to privacy-preserving data retrieval, many public key encryption techniques with keyword search systems have been proposed in the literature. However, most of the existing schemes are vulnerable to inside keyword guessing attack (IKGA), which is caused by a small keyword space. To address this problem, we propose a certificateless public key authenticated encryption with keyword search scheme, which is provably secure against IKGA. A performance analysis of the proposed scheme demonstrates that it is more secure and effective compared with other certificateless public key encryption with keyword search schemes.
TL;DR: This document defines the ChaCha20 stream cipher as well as the use of the Poly1305 authenticator, both as stand-alone algorithms and as a "combined mode", or Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) algorithm.
Abstract: This document defines the ChaCha20 stream cipher as well as the use of
the Poly1305 authenticator, both as stand-alone algorithms and as a
"combined mode", or Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data
(AEAD) algorithm. This document does not introduce any new crypto,
but is meant to serve as a stable reference and an implementation
guide. It is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG).
TL;DR: This paper proposes the notion of Public-key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword Search (PAEKS), and proves its security based on simple and static assumptions in the random oracle model under the given security models.
Abstract: How to efficiently search over encrypted data is an important and interesting problem in the cloud era. To solve it, Boneh et al. introduced the notion of public key encryption with keyword search (PEKS), in 2004. However, in almost all the PEKS schemes an inside adversary may recover the keyword from a given trapdoor by exhaustively guessing the keywords offline. How to resist the inside keyword guessing attack in PEKS remains a hard problem. In this paper we propose introduce the notion of Public-key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword Search (PAEKS) to solve the problem, in which the data sender not only encrypts a keyword, but also authenticates it, so that a verifier would be convinced that the encrypted keyword can only be generated by the sender. We propose a concrete and efficient construction of PAEKS, and prove its security based on simple and static assumptions in the random oracle model under the given security models. Experimental results show that our scheme enjoys a comparable efficiency with Boneh et al.’s scheme.
TL;DR: The first successful operation of a multi-rotor flying robot that autonomously flies under the ground controller with real-time homomorphic authenticated encryption is reported, which guarantees the security against eavesdropping and forgery attacks.
Abstract: Controlling or accessing remotely has become a prevalent form of operating numerous types of platforms and infrastructure. An exploding number of vehicles such as drones or cars, in particular, are being controlled wirelessly or connected through networks. This has brought unanimous concern that today’s networked vehicle systems are vulnerable to attacks and the results could be fatal. Unfortunately, in contrast to active investigation on the security of the vehicles themselves, sensors, or communication channels, existing approaches for these real-time, safety-critical systems do not take controllers into enough consideration. In order to protect the controller that performs the arithmetic operations using sensor measurements and generates command signals, we adopt homomorphic cryptography for the controller. It removes risks associated with the management of the secret key inside the controller, by eliminating the need to encrypt and decrypt the data for the mathematical operation within the controller. Specifically, we propose an efficient linearly homomorphic authenticated encryption ( LinHAE ) scheme for the ground control center of a multi-rotor drone, in a manner that enables real-time operation for safe autonomous flight. To facilitate the linear scheme, we design the ground controller targeted to allow state update using additions and multiplications by a system-specific constant. The proposed LinHAE guarantees the security against eavesdropping and forgery attacks, unlike homomorphic encryption alone that does not provide means to check whether the received signal at the drone side is authentic or compromised. We introduce a LinHAE with security and computational tractability, and describe how it can fit into the standard architecture for drone systems and how the specific controller is implemented. Building on these ingredients, we report the first successful operation of a multi-rotor flying robot that autonomously flies under the ground controller with real-time homomorphic authenticated encryption.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a lightweight, sponge-based authenticated encryption (AE) family called Beetle, which is provably secure up to min{ c − log r, b /2, r } bits, where b is the permutation size and r and c are parameters called rate and capacity, respectively.
Abstract: This paper presents a lightweight, sponge-based authenticated encryption (AE) family called Beetle. When instantiated with the PHOTON permutation from CRYPTO 2011, Beetle achieves the smallest footprint—consuming only a few more than 600 LUTs on FPGA while maintaining 64-bit security. This figure is significantly smaller than all known lightweight AE candidates which consume more than 1,000 LUTs, including the latest COFB-AES from CHES 2017. In order to realize such small hardware implementation, we equip Beetle with an “extremely tight” bound of security. The trick is to use combined feedback to create a difference between the cipher text block and the rate part of the next feedback (in traditional sponge these two values are the same). Then we are able to show that Beetle is provably secure up to min{ c − log r , b /2, r } bits, where b is the permutation size and r and c are parameters called rate and capacity, respectively. The tight security bound allows us to select the smallest security parameters, which in turn result in the smallest footprint.
TL;DR: A compactly committing authenticated encryption (AE) scheme for message franking was proposed in this paper, which enables cryptographically verifiable reporting of abusive messages in end-to-end encrypted messaging.
Abstract: Message franking enables cryptographically verifiable reporting of abusive messages in end-to-end encrypted messaging. Grubbs, Lu, and Ristenpart recently formalized the needed underlying primitive, what they call compactly committing authenticated encryption (AE), and analyze security of a number of approaches. But all known secure schemes are still slow compared to the fastest standard AE schemes. For this reason Facebook Messenger uses AES-GCM for franking of attachments such as images or videos.
TL;DR: This paper turns the fact that the decryption/verification gives us information on the effect of a fault (whether a fault changed a value or not) against it, and concerns the verification/decryption, which releases only verified plaintext.
Abstract: In the context of fault attacks on nonce-based authenticated encryption, an attacker faces two restrictions. The first is the uniqueness of the nonce for each new encryption that prevents the attacker from collecting pairs of correct and faulty outputs to perform, e.g., differential fault attacks. The second restriction concerns the verification/decryption, which releases only verified plaintext. While many recent works either exploit misuse scenarios (e.g. nonce-reuse, release of unverified plaintext), we turn the fact that the decryption/verification gives us information on the effect of a fault (whether a fault changed a value or not) against it.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a generic construction of threshold authenticated encryption based on any distributed pseudorandom function (DPRF) and provide strong and intuitive game-based definitions that yield efficient constructions.
Abstract: Threshold cryptography provides a mechanism for protecting secret keys by sharing them among multiple parties, who then jointly perform cryptographic operations. An attacker who corrupts up to a threshold number of parties cannot recover the secrets or violate security. Prior works in this space have mostly focused on definitions and constructions for public-key cryptography and digital signatures, and thus do not capture the security concerns and efficiency challenges of symmetric-key based applications which commonly use long-term (unprotected) master keys to protect data at rest, authenticate clients on enterprise networks, and secure data and payments on IoT devices. We put forth the first formal treatment for distributed symmetric-key encryption, proposing new notions of correctness, privacy and authenticity in presence of malicious attackers. We provide strong and intuitive game-based definitions that are easy to understand and yield efficient constructions. We propose a generic construction of threshold authenticated encryption based on any distributed pseudorandom function (DPRF). When instantiated with the two different DPRF constructions proposed by Naor, Pinkas and Reingold (Eurocrypt 1999) and our enhanced versions, we obtain several efficient constructions meeting different security definitions. We implement these variants and provide extensive performance comparisons. Our most efficient instantiation uses only symmetric-key primitives and achieves a throughput of upto 1 million encryptions/decryptions per seconds, or alternatively a sub-millisecond latency with upto 18 participating parties.
TL;DR: The problem of encrypting and authenticating quantum data in the presence of adversaries making adaptive chosen plaintext and chosen ciphertext queries is studied, and a new definition of one-time quantum authentication is given which authenticates ciphertexts rather than plaintexts.
Abstract: We study the problem of encrypting and authenticating quantum data in the presence of adversaries making adaptive chosen plaintext and chosen ciphertext queries. Classically, security games use string copying and comparison to detect adversarial cheating in such scenarios. Quantumly, this approach would violate no-cloning. We develop new techniques to overcome this problem: we use entanglement to detect cheating, and rely on recent results for characterizing quantum encryption schemes. We give definitions for (i) ciphertext unforgeability, (ii) indistinguishability under adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack, and (iii) authenticated encryption. The restriction of each definition to the classical setting is at least as strong as the corresponding classical notion: (i) implies \(\mathsf {INT\text {-}CTXT}\), (ii) implies \(\mathsf {IND\text {-}CCA2}\), and (iii) implies \(\mathsf {AE}\). All of our new notions also imply \(\mathsf {QIND\text {-}CPA}\) privacy. Combining one-time authentication and classical pseudorandomness, we construct symmetric-key quantum encryption schemes for each of these new security notions, and provide several separation examples. Along the way, we also give a new definition of one-time quantum authentication which, unlike all previous approaches, authenticates ciphertexts rather than plaintexts.
TL;DR: A new primitive for identity-concealed authenticated encryption in the public-key setting, referred to as higncryption, is introduced, which can be viewed as a novel monolithic integration of public- key encryption, digital signature, and identity concealment, and a security definitional framework is proposed.
Abstract: Identity concealment and zero-round trip time (0-RTT) connection are two of current research focuses in the design and analysis of secure transport protocols, like TLS1.3 and Google's QUIC, in the client-server setting. In this work, we introduce a new primitive for identity-concealed authenticated encryption in the public-key setting, referred to as higncryption, which can be viewed as a novel monolithic integration of public-key encryption, digital signature, and identity concealment. We then present the security definitional framework for higncryption, and a conceptually simple (yet carefully designed) protocol construction. As a new primitive, higncryption can have many applications. In this work, we focus on its applications to 0-RTT authentication, showing higncryption is well suitable to and compatible with QUIC and OPTLS, and on its applications to identity-concealed authenticated key exchange (CAKE) and unilateral CAKE (UCAKE). Of independent interest is a new concise security definitional framework for CAKE and UCAKE proposed in this work, which unifies the traditional BR and (post-ID) frameworks, enjoys composability, and ensures very strong security guarantee. Along the way, we make a systematically comparative study with related protocols and mechanisms including Zheng's signcryption, one-pass HMQV, QUIC, TLS1.3 and OPTLS, most of which are widely standardized or in use.
TL;DR: SUNDAE is proved secure relative to its underlying block cipher, and an extensive implementation study is provided, with results in both software and hardware, demonstrating that SUNDAE offers improved compactness and power consumption in hardware compared to other lightweight AE modes, while simultaneously offering comparable performance to GCM-SIV on parallel high-end platforms.
Abstract: Lightweight cryptography was developed in response to the increasing need to secure devices for the Internet of Things. After significant research effort, many new block ciphers have been designed targeting lightweight settings, optimizing efficiency metrics which conventional block ciphers did not. However, block ciphers must be used in modes of operation to achieve more advanced security goals such as data confidentiality and authenticity, a research area given relatively little attention in the lightweight setting. We introduce a new authenticated encryption (AE) mode of operation, SUNDAE, specially targeted for constrained environments. SUNDAE is smaller than other known lightweight modes in implementation area, such as CLOC, JAMBU, and COFB, however unlike these modes, SUNDAE is designed as a deterministic authenticated encryption (DAE) scheme, meaning it provides maximal security in settings where proper randomness is hard to generate, or secure storage must be minimized due to expense. Unlike other DAE schemes, such as GCM-SIV, SUNDAE can be implemented efficiently on both constrained devices, as well as the servers communicating with those devices. We prove SUNDAE secure relative to its underlying block cipher, and provide an extensive implementation study, with results in both software and hardware, demonstrating that SUNDAE offers improved compactness and power consumption in hardware compared to other lightweight AE modes, while simultaneously offering comparable performance to GCM-SIV on parallel high-end platforms.
TL;DR: The indifferentiability framework is used to formalize the intuition that a “good” AEAD scheme should have random ciphertexts subject to decryptability, and the indifferentiability composition theorem is applied to show that such schemes offer extra safeguards wherever the relevant security properties are not known, or cannot be predicted in advance, as in general-purpose crypto libraries and standards.
Abstract: We study Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) from the viewpoint of composition in arbitrary (single-stage) environments. We use the indifferentiability framework to formalize the intuition that a “good” AEAD scheme should have random ciphertexts subject to decryptability. Within this framework, we can then apply the indifferentiability composition theorem to show that such schemes offer extra safeguards wherever the relevant security properties are not known, or cannot be predicted in advance, as in general-purpose crypto libraries and standards.
TL;DR: The requirements of the proposed design and the progress of candidate screening in the CAESAR competition are introduced, and the candidate AE schemes in the final round are classified according to their design structures and encryption modes.
Abstract: The Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) supported by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is an ongoing project calling for submissions of authenticated encryption (AE) schemes. The competition itself aims at enhancing both the design of AE schemes and related analysis. The design goal is to pursue new AE schemes that are more secure than advanced encryption standard with Galois/counter mode (AES-GCM) and can simultaneously achieve three design aspects: security, applicability, and robustness. The competition has a total of three rounds and the last round is approaching the end in 2018. In this survey paper, we first introduce the requirements of the proposed design and the progress of candidate screening in the CAESAR competition. Second, the candidate AE schemes in the final round are classified according to their design structures and encryption modes. Third, comprehensive performance and security evaluations are conducted on these candidates. Finally, the research trends of design and analysis of AE for the future are discussed.
TL;DR: This work proposes AEAD schemes that exceed in efficiency over all previous general-purpose modular AEAD designs at processing (very) short inputs and demonstrates the applicability of a tweakable forkcipher by designing several provablysecure nonce-based AEAD modes of operation, optimized to be efficient for short messages.
Abstract: Highly efficient encryption and authentication of short messages has been identified as an essential requirement for enabling security in constrained computation and communication scenarios such as the CAN FD in automotive systems (with maximum message length of 64 bytes), massive IoT and critical communication domains of 5G, and Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT), to mention some. Accordingly, NIST has specified, as a design requirement in the lightweight cryptography project, that AEAD submissions shall be “optimized to be efficient for short messages (e.g., as short as 8 bytes)”. We propose AEAD schemes that exceed in efficiency over all previous general-purpose modular AEAD designs at processing (very) short inputs. The main ingredient in our solution is a new low-level primitive, called a tweakable forkcipher, which we introduce and formalize in this paper. We give an instance of the tweakable forkcipher and dub it ForkAES. It is based on the tweakable blockcipher KIASU, which relies on the round function of AES and uses the TWEAKEY framework to derive round keys from a 128-bit secret key and a 64-bit tweak. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of a tweakable forkcipher by designing several provablysecure nonce-based AEAD modes of operation, optimized to be efficient for short messages. Considering the AES block size (16 bytes) as a reference, our new AE schemes can beat all known schemes for single-block messages while still performing better than majority of the existing schemes for combined message and associated data lengths up to 4 blocks. While ForkAES as a concrete instantiation for a forkcipher is based on KIASU, we note that our solution provides a general recipe for lightweight AEAD for short messages, even for very resource-constrained scenarios in which AES may not be considered a lightweight option. In those environments, our schemes can be instantiated using a forkcipher that is realized based on the best off-the-shelf lightweight blockcipher, following the TWEAKEY framework.
TL;DR: A mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for cubeattack- like cryptanalysis on keyed Keccak, which does not impose any unnecessary constraint on cube variables and finds almost optimal cubes by balancing the two phases of cube-attack-like cryptanalysis.
Abstract: Cube-attack-like cryptanalysis on round-reduced Keccak was proposed by Dinur et al. at EUROCRYPT 2015. It recovers the key through two phases: the preprocessing phase for precomputing a look-up table and online phase for querying the output and getting the cube sum with which the right key can be retrieved by looking up the precomputed table. It was shown that such attacks are efficient specifically for Keccak-based constructions with small nonce or message block size. In this paper, we provide a mixed integer linear programming (MILP) model for cubeattack- like cryptanalysis on keyed Keccak, which does not impose any unnecessary constraint on cube variables and finds almost optimal cubes by balancing the two phases of cube-attack-like cryptanalysis. Our model is applied to Ketje Jr, Ketje Sr, a Xoodoo-based authenticated encryption and Keccak-MAC-512, all of which have a relatively small nonce or message block size. As a result, time complexities of 5-round attacks on Ketje Jr and 7-round attacks on Ketje Sr can be improved significantly. Meanwhile, 6-round attacks, one more round than the previous best attack, are possible if the key size of Ketje V1 (V2) is reduced to 72 (80) bits. For Xoodoo-based AE in Ketje style, the attack reaches 6 rounds. Additionally, a 7-round attack of Keccak-MAC-512 is achieved. To verify the correctness of our attacks, a 5-round attack on Ketje V1 is implemented and tested practically. It is noted that this work does not threaten the security of any Keccak-based construction.
TL;DR: From the experimental results obtained, it is shown how lightweight ciphers significantly contribute to reduce implementation area and energy consumption overheads, extending the lifetime of the sensor node.
Abstract: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) aim at linking the cyber and physical worlds. Their security has taken relevance due to the sensitive data these networks might process under unprotected physical and cybernetic environments. The operational constraints in the sensor nodes demand security primitives with small implementation size and low power consumption. Authenticated encryption is a mechanism to provide these systems with confidentiality, integrity, and authentication of sensitive data. In this paper we explore hardware implementation alternatives of authenticated encryption through generic compositions, to assess the costs of this security approach in WSN. Two symmetric ciphers, AES and P RESENT, and two hash functions, SHA and SPONGENT, are used as the underlying primitives for the generic compositions. All the architectures studied in this work are implemented and evaluated in an FPGA-based WSN mote. The life time of the sensor node is used as the main evaluation metric but FPGA resources are also reported. From the experimental results obtained, it is shown how lightweight ciphers significantly contribute to reduce implementation area and energy consumption overheads, extending the lifetime of the sensor node.
TL;DR: This paper analyzes the components of this algorithm (initialization, state update and tag generation), and reports several results.
Abstract: MORUS is a high-performance authenticated encryption algorithm submitted to the CAESAR competition, and recently selected as a finalist. There are three versions of MORUS: MORUS-640 with a 128-bit key, and MORUS-1280 with 128-bit or 256-bit keys. For all versions the security claim for confidentiality matches the key size. In this paper, we analyze the components of this algorithm (initialization, state update and tag generation), and report several results.
TL;DR: A AES-GCM authenticated encryption (AE) crypto-core suitable for IoT security applications that provides confidentiality by Counter (CTR) mode of block cipher AES and integrity and authenticity by GHASH is described.
Abstract: This paper describes a design of AES-GCM authenticated encryption (AE) crypto-core suitable for IoT security applications. The AES-GCM core provides confidentiality by Counter (CTR) mode of block cipher AES, and it also provides integrity and authenticity by GHASH. AES encryption supports two key lengths of supports key length of 128 and 256-bit. In order to optimize the overall performance, GHASH block was designed to perform Galois field multiplication in 11 clock cycles, resulting in the number of clock cycles between AES encryption and Galois field multiplication are matched. The AES-GCM core was verified by FPGA implementation, and it occupies 35,352 gate equivalents (GEs). The estimated throughput is 332 Mbps with maximum clock frequency of 140 MHz.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the multi-user security of GCM and provided tight security bounds for the nonce-randomization mechanism adopted in the record protocol of TLS 1.3.
Abstract: Multi-user (mu) security considers large-scale attackers (e.g., state actors) that given access to a number of sessions, attempt to compromise at least one of them. Mu security of authenticated encryption (AE) was explicitly considered in the development of TLS 1.3. This paper revisits the mu security of GCM, which remains to date the most widely used dedicated AE mode. We provide new concrete security bounds which improve upon previous work by adopting a refined parameterization of adversarial resources that highlights the impact on security of (1) nonce re-use across users and of (2) re-keying. As one of the main applications, we give tight security bounds for the nonce-randomization mechanism adopted in the record protocol of TLS 1.3 as a mitigation of large-scale multi-user attacks. We provide tight security bounds that yield the first validation of this method. In particular, we solve the main open question of Bellare and Tackmann (CRYPTO '16), who only considered restricted attackers which do not attempt to violate integrity, and only gave non-tight bounds.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the security of an end-to-end encryption scheme (E2EE) of LINE, a.k.a. Letter Sealing.
Abstract: In this paper, we analyze the security of an end-to-end encryption scheme (E2EE) of LINE, a.k.a Letter Sealing. LINE is one of the most widely-deployed instant messaging applications, especially in East Asia. By a close inspection of their protocols, we give several attacks against the message integrity of Letter Sealing. Specifically, we propose forgery and impersonation attacks on the one-to-one message encryption and the group message encryption. All of our attacks are feasible with the help of an end-to-end adversary, who has access to the inside of the LINE server (e.g. service provider LINE themselves). We stress that the main purpose of E2EE is to provide a protection against the end-to-end adversary. In addition, we found some attacks that even do not need the help of E2E adversary, which shows a critical security flaw of the protocol. Our results reveal that the E2EE scheme of LINE do not sufficiently guarantee the integrity of messages compared to the state-of-the-art E2EE schemes such as Signal, which is used by WhatApp and Facebook Messenger.
TL;DR: This paper proposes StrongBox, a stream cipher-based FDE layer that is a drop-in replacement for dm-crypt, the standard Linux FDE module based on AES-XTS, and introduces a system design and on-drive data structures that exploit LFS»s lack of overwrites to avoid costly rekeying and a counter stored in trusted hardware to protect against attacks.
Abstract: Full-drive encryption (FDE) is especially important for mobile devices because they contain large quantities of sensitive data yet are easily lost or stolen. Unfortunately, the standard approach to FDE-the AES block cipher in XTS mode-is 3--5× slower than unencrypted storage. Authenticated encryption based on stream ciphers is already used as a faster alternative to AES in other contexts, such as HTTPS, but the conventional wisdom is that stream ciphers are unsuitable for FDE. Used naively in drive encryption, stream ciphers are vulnerable to attacks, and mitigating these attacks with on-drive metadata is generally believed to ruin performance. In this paper, we argue that recent developments in mobile hardware invalidate this assumption, making it possible to use fast stream ciphers for FDE. Modern mobile devices employ solid-state storage with Flash Translation Layers (FTL), which operate similarly to Log-structured File Systems (LFS). They also include trusted hardware such as Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and secure storage areas. Leveraging these two trends, we propose StrongBox, a stream cipher-based FDE layer that is a drop-in replacement for dm-crypt, the standard Linux FDE module based on AES-XTS. StrongBox introduces a system design and on-drive data structures that exploit LFS»s lack of overwrites to avoid costly rekeying and a counter stored in trusted hardware to protect against attacks. We implement StrongBox on an ARM big.LITTLE mobile processor and test its performance under multiple popular production LFSes. We find that StrongBox improves read performance by as much as 2.36× (1.72× on average) while offering stronger integrity guarantees.
TL;DR: The results show that the AEZ-prf models of AEZ v4.2 is not secure in both the quantum setting and classical world, and the results can also be applied to AEz v3, which has been published on Eurocrypt 2015.
Abstract: AEZ is an AES-based authenticated encryption submitted to the ongoing CAESAR competition and was presented at Eurocrypt 2015 with AEZ v3. There are three models for AEZ, AEZ-core, AEZ-tiny and AEZ-prf. In this paper, we consider the security of AEZ-prf for AEZ v4.2, the latest version of AEZ. Our major finding is a collision of any 256-bit associated data for AES-prf. Then we launch collision attacks in a quantum setting and a classical setting respectively under different assumptions. In the quantum setting, by Simon's quantum algorithm, we amount a forgery with O(n) quantum superposition queries and an overwhelming probability close to 1. In the classical setting, one with the key of AEZ-prf can also construct the forgeries. Our results show that the AEZ-prf models of AEZ v4.2 is not secure in both the quantum setting and classical world. Furthermore, our results can also be applied to AEZ v3, which has been published on Eurocrypt 2015. As far as we know, no cryptanalysis of AEZ v4.2 has been published so far.
TL;DR: This work presents a common platform using the CAESAR-API in a Xilinx Zynq-7000 System on Chip (SoC) with ARM processors and an AXI interface and provides a hardware platform to test the proposed implementations of the candidates easily.
Abstract: In 2013 the Competition for Authenticated Encryption: Security, Applicability, and Robustness (CAESAR) was started. It aims at determining a portfolio of ciphers for authenticated encryption that has advantages over AES-GCM in terms of performance, security, and ease of implementation. This competition, for the first time, provides a standardized hardware API, which allows a fair comparison of hardware implementations. However, the community still lacks a common platform to automatically test hardware implementations, confirm implementation claims, and benchmark performance figures on real hardware in terms of runtime, area, power and energy consumption. In this work, we present a common platform using the CAESAR-API in a Xilinx Zynq-7000 System on Chip (SoC) with ARM processors and an AXI interface. This reflects a typical real world usage scenario for hardware-accelerators and thus extends the work for a fair comparison of hardware implementations in three dimensions: first the API is evaluated on a real SoC, which shows, e.g. the performance of the API. Second, it provides a hardware platform to test the proposed implementations of the candidates easily. This can be used by future designers, as we will provide it as open source hardware. Finally, we ran all published hardware implementations of the current 3rd-round candidates during which we identified several implementation weaknesses, e.g. presumably unintended latches in the design, hence emphasizing the importance of testing hardware proposals on real hardware.
TL;DR: In this paper, the security of authenticated encryption based on a stream cipher and a universal hash function was analyzed in the standard INT-CTXT (integrity of ciphertext) notion and in the RUP (releasing unverified plaintext) setting called INT-RUP notion.
Abstract: We study the security of authenticated encryption based on a stream cipher and a universal hash function. We consider ChaCha20-Poly1305 and generic constructions proposed by Sarkar, where the generic constructions include 14 AEAD (authenticated encryption with associated data) schemes and 3 DAEAD (deterministic AEAD) schemes. In this paper, we analyze the integrity of these schemes both in the standard INT-CTXT (integrity of ciphertext) notion and in the RUP (releasing unverified plaintext) setting called INT-RUP notion. We present INT-CTXT attacks against 3 out of the 14 AEAD schemes and 1 out of the 3 DAEAD schemes. We then show INT-RUP attacks against 1 out of the 14 AEAD schemes and the 2 remaining DAEAD schemes. Next, we consider ChaCha20-Poly1305 and show that it is provably secure in the INT-RUP notion. Finally, we show that the remaining 10 AEAD schemes are provably secure in the INT-RUP notion.
TL;DR: FEMALE, a new mode of operation that satisfies the authors' security definitions and supports efficient leveled implementations, and AEDT, another efficient mode ofoperation that offers the strongest form of misuse resistance that can be achieved in the presence of leakages, while not being fully misuse resistant in the black-box setting are proposed.
Abstract: We propose definitions and constructions of authenticated encryption (AE) schemes that offer security guarantees even in the presence of side-channel leakages and nonce misuse. This is part of an important ongoing effort to make AE as robust as possible, while preserving appealing efficiency properties. In order to achieve this efficiency, we aim at modes of operation that support leveled implementations such that the encryption and decryption operations require the use of a small constant number of evaluations of an expensive and heavily protected component, while the bulk of the computation can be performed by cheap and weakly protected blocks. Our definitions offer various insights on the effect of leakages in the security landscape. In particular, we show that, in contrast with the black-box setting, leaking variants of INT-CTXT and IND-CPA security do not imply a leaking variant IND-CCA security, and that leaking variants of INT-PTXT and IND-CCA do not imply a leaking variant of INT-CTXT. Eventually, we propose FEMALE, a new mode of operation that satisfies our security definitions and supports efficient leveled implementations, and AEDT, another efficient mode of operation that offers the strongest form of misuse resistance that can be achieved in the presence of leakages, while not being fully misuse resistant in the black-box setting.
TL;DR: This paper proposes a lightweight and privacy preserving data aggregation scheme for dynamic electricity pricing based billing in smart grids using the concept of single-pass authenticated encryption (AE).
Abstract: This paper proposes a lightweight and privacypreserving data aggregation scheme for dynamic electricity pricing based billing in smart grids using the concept of single-pass authenticated encryption (AE). Unlike existing literature that only considers static pricing, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to address privacy under dynamic pricing.
TL;DR: A positive response for GCM security by introducing two close to optimally secure pseudorandom functions and derive their security bound by the hybrid technique and constructing two improved versions of GCM, called O GCM-1 and OGCM-2.
Abstract: The Galois/Counter Mode of operation (GCM) is a widely used nonce-based authenticated encryption with associated data mode which provides the birthday-bound security in the nonce-respecting scenario; that is, it is secure up to about adversarial queries if all nonces used in the encryption oracle are never repeated, where is the block size. It is an open problem to analyze whether GCM security can be improved by using some simple operations. This paper presents a positive response for this problem. Firstly, we introduce two close to optimally secure pseudorandom functions and derive their security bound by the hybrid technique. Then, we utilize these pseudorandom functions that we design and a universal hash function to construct two improved versions of GCM, called OGCM-1 and OGCM-2. OGCM-1 and OGCM-2 are, respectively, provably secure up to approximately and adversarial queries in the nonce-respecting scenario if the underlying block cipher is a secure pseudorandom permutation. Finally, we discuss the properties of OGCM-1 and OGCM-2 and describe the future works.
TL;DR: The question of the security of these composition modes is particularly intriguing as N4, A11, and A12 are more efficient than the 12 composition modes that are known to be provably secure.
Abstract: Authenticated Encryption (\(\mathsf {AE}\)) achieves confidentiality and authenticity, the two most fundamental goals of cryptography, in a single scheme. A common strategy to obtain \(\mathsf {AE}\) is to combine a Message Authentication Code \((\mathsf {MAC})\) and an encryption scheme, either nonce-based or \(iv\)-based. Out of the 180 possible combinations, Namprempre et al. [20] proved that 12 were secure, 164 insecure and 4 were left unresolved: A10, A11 and A12 which use an \(iv\)-based encryption scheme and N4 which uses a nonce-based one. The question of the security of these composition modes is particularly intriguing as N4, A11, and A12 are more efficient than the 12 composition modes that are known to be provably secure.
TL;DR: This paper proposes a leakage-resilient authenticated encryption scheme, called Re-keying Code Book (RCB), that is secure against the side-channel attacks by combining with existing re- keying schemes, rather than designing new algorithms.
Abstract: The security of modern cryptosystems relies on the secrecy of the keys. Against the expectation that the keys used in cryptographic algorithms are perfectly secure, the keys can get compromised when implemented on physical devices. Because of the computational leakages from the execution of cryptographic algorithms, a variety of side-channel measurements can lead to full breaks of the targeted physical devices. Leakage-resilient cryptography aims at defining leakages in a generic model and designing provably secure primitives to capture side-channel attacks. For this purpose, several re-keying schemes are proposed to prevent encryption scheme from using the same key many times. In this paper, we propose a leakage-resilient authenticated encryption scheme, called Re-keying Code Book (RCB), that is secure against the side-channel attacks by combining with existing re-keying schemes. Our approach is to find efficient composition by combining two independent primitives, authenticated encryption, and re-keying schemes, rather than designing new algorithms. We also give the precise definitions of privacy and authenticity for authenticated encryption in a leakage-resilient model, and then, we provide the security proofs for RCB in a leakage-resilient model.