Title
Security of Symmetric Encryption in the Presence of Ciphertext Fragmentation.
Abstract
In recent years, a number of standardized symmetric encryption schemes have fallen foul of attacks exploiting the fact that in some real world scenarios ciphertexts can be delivered in a fragmented fashion. We initiate the first general and formal study of the security of symmetric encryption against such attacks. We extend the SSH-specific work of Paterson and Watson (Eurocrypt 2010) to develop security models for the fragmented setting. We also develop security models to formalize the additional desirable properties of ciphertext boundary hiding and robustness against Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks for schemes in this setting. We illustrate the utility of each of our models via efficient constructions for schemes using only standard cryptographic components, including constructions that simultaneously achieve confidentiality, ciphertext boundary hiding and DoS robustness.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-29011-4_40
IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive
Keywords
DocType
Volume
standardized symmetric encryption scheme,dos robustness,fragmented fashion,ciphertext boundary hiding,ssh-specific work,symmetric encryption,security model,ciphertext fragmentation,efficient construction,additional desirable property,fragmented setting
Conference
2015
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
28
0.83
References 
Authors
23
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Alexandra Boldyreva12297114.80
Jean Paul Degabriele21628.23
Kenneth G. Paterson32683165.56
Martijn Stam4165967.36