Title
Public-Key Encryption with Tight Simulation-Based Selective-Opening Security.
Abstract
In a selective-opening, chosen-ciphertext attack (SO-CCA) against a public key encryption scheme (PKE scheme), a probabilistic polynomial time (PPT) adversary obtains a vector of challenge ciphertexts, has access to a decryption oracle, adaptively selects to open some of the challenge ciphertexts and sees the corresponding messages together with the random coins. The simulation-based, selective-opening security against chosen-ciphertext attacks (SIM-SO-CCA security) protects the security of the unopened messages in a semantic way, i.e. it requires that the output of the adversary can be simulated by a simulator who sees only the opened messages. In particular, all information that the adversary can get from the unopened messages can also be simulated from the opened messages alone by the simulator. All security proofs of the available PKEs achieving SIM-SO-CCA security are not tight, and the security loss depends either on the number of challenge ciphertexts or on the number of decryption queries. In this work, we present the first PKE scheme which achieves SIM-SO-CCA security with a tight reduction to standard assumptions. This partially solves the open problem proposed by Hofheinz in EuroCrypt 2012.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1093/comjnl/bxx080
COMPUTER JOURNAL
Keywords
Field
DocType
public-key encryption,selective-opening attack,SIM-SO-CCA security,tight reduction
Multiple encryption,Computer security,Computer science,Selective opening,Public-key cryptography,56-bit encryption,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
61
2
0010-4620
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
2
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lin Lyu132.77
Shengli Liu248445.70
Shuai Han3710.28