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Plaintext-Simulatability

Authors:
Eiichiro Fujisaki
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/218
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Abstract: We propose a new security class, called plaintext-simulatability, defined over the public-key encryption schemes. The notion of plaintext simulatability (denoted PS) is similar to the notion of plaintext awareness (denoted PA), but it is, ``properly'', a weaker security class for public-key encryption. In most cases, PA is ``unnecessarily'' strong, --- only used to prove that a public-key encryption scheme is CCA2-secure, because it looks much easier than to prove ``directly'' that the scheme meets IND-CCA2. We show that PS also implies IND-CCA2, while preserving a good view of the security proofs as well as PA. PS looks ``properly'' stronger than IND-CCA2. So far, however, it is not sure how to prove this, which remains open.
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@misc{eprint-2004-12189,
  title={Plaintext-Simulatability},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography / plaintext-awareness},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/218},
  note={ found in the e-mail address in the paper 12669 received 1 Sep 2004, last revised 8 Sep 2004},
  author={Eiichiro Fujisaki},
  year=2004
}