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2013-11-25
22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

In this paper, we design a novel one-way trapdoor function, and then propose a new multivariate public key cryptosystem called $\\rm TOT$, which can be used for encryption, signature and authentication. Through analysis, we declare that $\\rm TOT$ is secure, because it can resist current known algebraic attacks if its parameters are properly chosen. Some practical implementations for $\\rm TOT$ are also given, and whose security level is at least $2^{90}$. The comparison shows that $\\rm TOT$ is more secure than $\\rm HFE$, $\\rm HFEv$ and $\\rm Quartz$ (when $n \\ge 81$ and $D_{HFE} \\ge 129$, $\\rm HFE$ is still secure), and it can reach almost the same speed of computing the secret map by $\\rm C^\\ast$ and $\\rm Sflash^{v2}$ (even though $\\rm C^\\ast$ was broken, its high speed has been affirmed).

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

BLINKER is a light-weight cryptographic suite and record protocol built from a single permutation. Its design is based on the Sponge construction used by the SHA-3 algorithm KECCAK. We examine the SpongeWrap authenticated encryption mode and expand its padding mechanism to offer explicit domain separation and enhanced security for our specific requirements: shared secret half-duplex keying, encryption, and a MAC-and-continue mode. We motivate these enhancements by showing that unlike legacy protocols, the resulting record protocol is secure against a two-channel synchronization attack while also having a significantly smaller implementation footprint. The design facilitates security proofs directly from a single cryptographic primitive (a single security assumption) rather than via idealization of multitude of algorithms, paddings and modes of operation. The protocol is also uniquely suitable for an autonomous or semi-autonomous hardware implementation of protocols where the secrets never leave the module, making it attractive for smart card and HSM designs.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

We show how efficient and secure cryptographic mixing functions can be constructed from low-degree rotation-invariant $\\phi$ functions rather than conventional S-Boxes. These novel functions have surprising properties; many exhibit inherent feeble (Boolean circuit) one-wayness and offer speed/area tradeoffs unobtainable with traditional constructs. Recent theoretical results indicate that even if the inverse is not explicitly computed in an implementation, its degree plays a fundamental role to the security of the iterated composition. To illustrate these properties, we present CBEAM, a Cryptographic Sponge Permutation based on a single $5 \\times 1$-bit Boolean function. This simple nonlinear function is used to construct a 16-bit rotation-invariant$\\phi$ function of Degree 4 (but with a very complex Degree 11 inverse), which in turn is expanded into an efficient 256-bit mixing function. In addition to flexible tradeoffs in hardware we show that efficient implementation strategies exist for software platforms ranging from low-end microcontrollers to the very latest x86-64 AVX2 instruction set. A rotational bit-sliced software implementation offers not only comparable speeds to AES but also increased security against cache side channel attacks. Our construction supports Sponge-based Authenticated Encryption, Hashing, and PRF/PRNG modes and is highly useful as a compact all-in-one\'\' primitive for pervasive security.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

\\emph{Functional encryption} (FE) is a powerful primitive enabling fine-grained access to encrypted data. In an FE scheme, secret keys (tokens\'\') correspond to functions; a user in possession of a

ciphertext $\\ct = \\enc(x)$ and a token $\\tkf$ for the function~$f$

can compute $f(x)$ but learn nothing else about~$x$. An active area of research over the past few years has focused on the development of ever more expressive FE schemes.

In this work we introduce the notion of \\emph{multi-input} functional encryption. Here, informally, a user in possession of a token $\\tkf$ for an $n$-ary function $f$ and \\emph{multiple} ciphertexts $\\ct_1=\\enc(x_1)$, \\ldots, $\\ct_n=\\enc(x_n)$ can compute $f(x_1, \\ldots, x_n)$ but nothing else about the~$\\{x_i\\}$.

Besides introducing the notion, we explore the feasibility of multi-input FE in the public-key and symmetric-key settings, with respect to both indistinguishability-based and simulation-based definitions of security.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

Zorro is an AES-like lightweight block cipher proposed in CHES 2013, which only uses 4 S-boxes per round. The designers showed the resistance of the cipher against various attacks and concluded the cipher has a large security margin. Recently, Guo et. al have given a key recovery attack on full-round Zorro by using the internal differential characteristics. However, the attack only works for $2^{64}$ out of $2^{128}$ keys. In this paper, the secret key selected randomly from the whole key space can be recovered with a time complexity of $2^{108}$ full-round Zorro encryptions and a data complexity of $2^{112.4}$ chosen plaintexts. We first observe that the fourth power of the MDS matrix used in Zorro equals to the identity matrix. Moveover, several iterated differential characteristics and iterated linear trails are found due to the interesting property. We select three characteristics with the largest probability to give a key recovery attack on Zorro and a linear trail with the largest correlation to show a a linear distinguishing attack with $2^{105.3}$ known plaintexts. The results show that the security of Zorro against linear and differential cryptanalysis evaluated by designers is insufficient and the block cipher Zorro is far from a random permutation.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

In many cases, we can only have access to a service by proving we are sufficiently close to a particular location (e.g. in automobile or building access control). In these cases, proximity can be guaranteed through signal attenuation. However, by using additional transmitters an attacker can relay signals between the prover and the verifier. Distance-bounding protocols are the main countermeasure against such attacks; however, such protocols may leak information regarding the location of the prover and/or the verifier who run the distance-bounding protocol.

In this paper, we consider a formal model for location privacy in the context of distance-bounding. In particular, our contributions are threefold: we first define a security game for location privacy in distance-bounding; secondly, we define an adversarial model for this game, with two adversary classes; finally, we assess the feasibility of attaining location privacy for distance-bounding protocols. Concretely, we prove that for protocols with a beginning or a termination, it is theoretically impossible to achieve location privacy for either of the two adversary classes, in the sense that there always exists a polynomially bounded adversary that wins the security game. However, for so-called limited adversaries, which cannot see the location of arbitrary provers, carefully chosen parameters do, in practice, enable computational location privacy.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

Multiplicative monotone span program is one of the important tools to realize secure multiparty computation. It is essential to construct multiplicative monotone span programs for secure multiparty computations. For any access structure, Cramer et al. gave a method to construct multiplicative monotone span programs, but its row size became double, and the column size also increased. In this paper, we propose a new construction which can get a multiplicative monotone span program with the row size less than double without changing the column size.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

This paper introduces Multi-Stage Fault Attacks, which allow Differential Fault Analysis of block ciphers having independent subkeys. Besides the specification of an algorithm implementing the technique, we show concrete applications to LED-128 and PRINCE and demonstrate that in both cases approximately 3 to 4 fault-injections are enough to reconstruct the full 128-bit key.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

We investigate an application of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) referred to in the literature as group scanning, in which an RFID reader device interrogates several RFID tags to establish \"simultaneous\" presence of a group of tags. Our goal is to study the group scanning problem in strong adversarial settings and show how group scanning can be used in distributed applications for supply chain management.

We present a security framework for group scanning and give a formal description of the attending security requirements. Our model is based on the Universal Composability framework and supports re-usability

(through modularity of security guarantees). We propose two novel protocols that realize group scanning in this security model, based on off-the-shelf components such as low-cost (highly optimized) pseudorandom functions, and show how these can be integrated into RFID supply-chain management systems

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

Rabbit stream cipher is one of the finalists of eSTREAM

project which uses 128-bit secret keys. Prior to us, the attacks on Rabbit

has been all focused on the bias analysis and the best result showed the

distinguishing attack with complexity 2136. Our analysis in this paper,

is based on chosen IV analysis on reduced N-S round of Rabbit though

using multi cube tester. For this purpose we show for a mature cube

we could easily identify weak subcubes which increase the probability of

distinguishing for an unknown secret key. We also represent with 225

complexity, using one iteration of next state function the keystream is

completely distinguishable from random.

22:17 [Pub][ePrint]

We define a notion of semantic security of multi-linear

(a.k.a. graded) encoding schemes: roughly speaking, we require that if

an algebraic attacker (obeying the multi-linear restrictions) cannot tell

apart two constant-length sequences $\\vec{m}_0$, $\\vec{m}_1$ in the

presence of some other elements $\\vec{z}$, then

encodings of these sequences should be indistinguishable.

Assuming the existence of semantically secure multi-linear encodings

and the LWE assumption, we demonstrate the existence of

indistinguishability obfuscators for all polynomial-size circuits.

Additionally, if we assume an strengthening of

semantic security, our construction yields extractatability

obfuscators for all polynomial-size circuits.

We rely on the beautiful candidate obfuscation constructions

of Garg et al (FOCS\'13), Brakerski and Rothblum (TCC\'14) and Barak et

al (ePrint\'13) that were proven secure only in idealized generic

multilinear encoding models,

and develop new techniques for demonstrating security in the standard model, based only on

semantical security of multi-linear encoding (which trivially holds in

the generic multilinear encoding model).