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### Paper: Security under Message-Derived Keys: Signcryption in iMessage

Authors: Mihir Bellare , UC San Diego Igors Stepanovs , ETH Zürich DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-45727-3_17 (login may be required) Search ePrint Search Google Slides EUROCRYPT 2020 At the core of Apple's iMessage is a SignCryption scheme that involves symmetric encryption of a message under a key that is derived from the message itself. To capture this, we formalize a primitive we call Encryption under Message-Derived Keys (EMDK). We prove security of the EMDK scheme underlying iMessage. We use this to prove security of the SignCryption scheme itself, with respect to definitions of SignCryption we give that enhance prior ones to cover issues peculiar to messaging protocols. Our provable-security results are quantitative, and we discuss the practical implications for iMessage.
##### BibTeX
@inproceedings{eurocrypt-2020-30251,
title={Security under Message-Derived Keys: Signcryption in iMessage},
booktitle={39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Zagreb, Croatia, May 10–14, 2020, Proceedings},
series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
publisher={Springer},
keywords={SignCryption;Public-Key Encryption;Symmetric Encryption;Random Oracle Model;Messaging},
volume={12105},
doi={10.1007/978-3-030-45727-3_17},
author={Mihir Bellare and Igors Stepanovs},
year=2020
}