## CryptoDB

### Paper: Algebraic Adversaries in the Universal Composability Framework

Authors: Michel Abdalla , École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France Manuel Barbosa , University of Porto (FCUP) and INESC TEC Jonathan Katz , University of Maryland College Park, USA Julian Loss , CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany Jiayu Xu , Algorand Search ePrint Search Google ASIACRYPT 2021 The algebraic-group model (AGM), which lies between the generic group model and the standard model of computation, provides a means by which to analyze the security of cryptosystems against so-called algebraic adversaries. We formalize the AGM within the framework of universal composability, providing formal definitions for this setting and proving an appropriate composition theorem. This extends the applicability of the AGM to more-complex protocols, and lays the foundations for analyzing algebraic adversaries in a composable fashion. Our results also clarify the meaning of composing proofs in the AGM with other proofs and they highlight a natural form of independence between idealized groups that seems inherent to the AGM and has not been made formal before---these insights also apply to the composition of game-based proofs in the AGM. We show the utility of our model by proving several important protocols universally composable for algebraic adversaries, specifically: (1) the Chou-Orlandi protocol for oblivious transfer, and (2) the SPAKE2 and CPace protocols for password-based authenticated key exchange.
##### BibTeX
@inproceedings{asiacrypt-2021-31404,
title={Algebraic Adversaries in the Universal Composability Framework},
publisher={Springer-Verlag},
author={Michel Abdalla and Manuel Barbosa and Jonathan Katz and Julian Loss and Jiayu Xu},
year=2021
}