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Forward-Security in Private-Key Cryptography
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Abstract: | This paper provides a comprehensive treatment of forward-security in the context of shared-key based cryptographic primitives, as a practical means to mitigate the damage caused by key-exposure. We provide definitions of security, practical proven-secure constructions, and applications for the main primitives in this area. We identify forward-secure pseudorandom bit generators as the central primitive, providing several constructions and then showing how forward-secure message authentication schemes and symmetric encryption schemes can be built based on standard schemes for these problems coupled with forward-secure pseudorandom bit generators. We then apply forward-secure message authentication schemes to the problem of maintaining secure access logs in the presence of break-ins. |
BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2001-11447, title={Forward-Security in Private-Key Cryptography}, booktitle={IACR Eprint archive}, keywords={pseudorandom number generators, forward security, audit logs}, url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2001/035}, note={An extended abstract of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the CT-RSA 2003 conference. This is the full version. mihir@cs.ucsd.edu 12009 received 5 May 2001, last revised 18 Nov 2002}, author={Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee}, year=2001 }