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2012-07-11
18:17 [Pub][ePrint]

In this paper, we revisit formalizations of information-theoretic security for symmetric-key encryption and key agreement protocols. In general, we can formalize information-theoretic security in various ways: some of them can be formalized as stand-alone security by extending (or relaxing) Shannon\'s perfect secrecy; some of them can be done based on composable security. Then, a natural question about this is: what is the gap between the formalizations? To answer the question, we investigate relationships between several formalizations of information-theoretic security for symmetric-key encryption and key agreement protocols. Specifically, for symmetric-key encryption protocols which may have decryption-errors, we deal with the following formalizations of security: formalizations extended (or relaxed) from Shannon\'s perfect secrecy by using mutual information and statistical distance; information-theoretic analogue of indistinguishability by Goldwasser and Micali; and the ones of composable security by Maurer et al. and Canetti. Then, we show that those formalizations are essentially equivalent under both one-time and multiple-use models. Under the both models, we also derive lower bounds of the adversary\'s (or distinguisher\'s) advantage and secret-key size required under all of the above formalizations. Although some of them are already known, we can derive them all at once through our relationships between the formalizations. In addition, we briefly observe impossibility results which easily follow from the lower bounds. The similar results are also shown for key agreement protocols which may have agreement-errors.

12:23 [Job][Update]

At the RUB a teaching position (tenured) is open. The German job name is \\\"Akademischer Rat\\\", with a teaching load of 13 hours per week. This is a postdoc position, a Ph.D. degree is required.

This teching position is located at the chair for Network and Data Security (www.nds.rub.de). Applicants should have a strong publication record in the areas of cryptographic protocols, web security, or webservice security.

Due to the large teaching load, excellent knowledge of German language is reqired.

2012-07-09
11:49 [Job][New]

At the RUB a teaching position (tenured) is open. The German job name is \"Akademischer Rat\", with a teaching load of 13 hours per week. This is a postdoc position, a Ph.D. degree is required.

This teching position is located at the chair for Network and Data Security (www.nds.rub.de). Applicants should have a strong publication record in the areas of cryptographic protocols, web security, or webservice security.

Due to the large teaching load, excellent knowledge of German language is reqired.

05:48 [PhD][New]

Name: Tal Malkin

05:47 [PhD][New]

Name: Ilya Kizhvatov
Topic: Physical Security of Cryptographic Algorithm Implementations
Category: implementation

Description:

This thesis deals with physical attacks on implementations of cryptographic algorithms and countermeasures against these attacks. Physical attacks exploit properties of an implementation such as leakage through physically observable parameters (side-channel analysis) or susceptibility to errors (fault analysis) to recover secret cryptographic keys. In the absence of adequate countermeasures such attacks are often much more efficient than classical cryptanalytic attacks. Particularly vulnerable to physical attacks are embedded devices that implement cryptography in a variety of security-demanding applications.

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In the area of side-channel analysis, this thesis addresses attacks that exploit observations of power consumption or electromagnetic leakage of the device and target symmetric cryptographic algorithms (at the notable example of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)). First, this work proposes a new combination of two well-known techniques of such attacks: differential side-channel analysis and side-channel collision attacks. The combination is more efficient than each of the attacks individually. As a further improvement, new dimension reduction techniques for side-channel acquisitions are introduced for side-channel collision detection and compared using an information-theoretic metric. Second, this work studies attacks exploiting leakage induced by microprocessor cache mechanism. We present an algorithm for cache-collision attacks that can recover the secret key in the presence of uncertainties in cache event detection from side-channel acquisitions, which may happen in a noisy measurement environment. Third, practical side-channel attacks are discovered against the AES engine of the AVR XMEGA, a recent versatile microcontroller for a variety of embedded applications.

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In the area of fault analysis, this thesis extends existing attacks against the RSA digital signature algorithm implemented with the Chinese remainder theorem to a setti[...]

05:47 [PhD][New]

Name: Seung Geol Choi
Topic: On Adaptive Security and Round Efficiency in Secure Multi-party Computation
Category: cryptographic protocols

2012-07-08
12:52 [Conf][Crypto]

http://www.iacr.org/conferences/crypto2012/registration-2012.html

2012-07-06
21:17 [Pub][ePrint]

An electric vehicle is a promising and futuristic automobile propelled by electric motor(s), using electrical energy stored in batteries or another energy storage device. Due to the need of battery recharging, the cars will be required to visit recharging infrastructure very frequently. This may disclose the users\' private information, such as their location, which may expose users\' privacy. In this paper, we provide mechanisms to enhance location privacy of electric vehicles at the right time, by proposing an anonymous payment system

with privacy protection support. Our technique further allows traceability in the case where the cars are stolen.

21:17 [Pub][ePrint]

21:17 [Pub][ePrint]

In this paper, we present a new class of knapsack type PKC referred to as K(II)$\\Sigma\\Pi$PKC.

In K(II)$\\Sigma\\Pi$PKC, Bob randomly constructs a very small subset of Alice\'s set of public key whose order is very large,

under the condition that the coding rate $\\rho$ satisfies $0.01 < \\rho < 0.5$.

In K(II)$\\Sigma\\Pi$PKC, no secret sequence such as super-increasing sequence or shifted-odd sequence but the sequence whose component is constructed by a product of the same number of many prime numbers of the same size, is used.

We show that K(II)$\\Sigma\\Pi$PKC is secure against the attacks such as LLL algorithm, Shamir\'s attack etc. , because a subset of Alice\'s public keys

is chosen entirely in a probabilistic manner at the sending end.

We also show that K(II)$\\Sigma\\Pi$PKC can be used as a member of the class of common key cryptosystems because the list

of the subset randomly chosen by Bob can be used as a common key between Bob and Alice,

provided that the conditions given in this paper are strictly observed,

without notifying Alice of his secret key through a particular secret channel.

21:17 [Pub][ePrint]