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_id: '1647'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Round-optimal blind signatures are notoriously hard to construct in the standard
    model, especially in the malicious-signer model, where blindness must hold under
    adversarially chosen keys. This is substantiated by several impossibility results.
    The only construction that can be termed theoretically efficient, by Garg and
    Gupta (Eurocrypt’14), requires complexity leveraging, inducing an exponential
    security loss. We present a construction of practically efficient round-optimal
    blind signatures in the standard model. It is conceptually simple and builds on
    the recent structure-preserving signatures on equivalence classes (SPSEQ) from
    Asiacrypt’14. While the traditional notion of blindness follows from standard
    assumptions, we prove blindness under adversarially chosen keys under an interactive
    variant of DDH. However, we neither require non-uniform assumptions nor complexity
    leveraging. We then show how to extend our construction to partially blind signatures
    and to blind signatures on message vectors, which yield a construction of one-show
    anonymous credentials à la “anonymous credentials light” (CCS’13) in the standard
    model. Furthermore, we give the first SPS-EQ construction under noninteractive
    assumptions and show how SPS-EQ schemes imply conventional structure-preserving
    signatures, which allows us to apply optimality results for the latter to SPS-EQ.
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- LNCS
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author:
- first_name: Georg
  full_name: Fuchsbauer, Georg
  id: 46B4C3EE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Fuchsbauer
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Hanser, Christian
  last_name: Hanser
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Slamanig, Daniel
  last_name: Slamanig
citation:
  ama: 'Fuchsbauer G, Hanser C, Slamanig D. Practical round-optimal blind signatures
    in the standard model. In: Vol 9216. Springer; 2015:233-253. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12</a>'
  apa: 'Fuchsbauer, G., Hanser, C., &#38; Slamanig, D. (2015). Practical round-optimal
    blind signatures in the standard model (Vol. 9216, pp. 233–253). Presented at
    the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States:
    Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12</a>'
  chicago: Fuchsbauer, Georg, Christian Hanser, and Daniel Slamanig. “Practical Round-Optimal
    Blind Signatures in the Standard Model,” 9216:233–53. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12</a>.
  ieee: 'G. Fuchsbauer, C. Hanser, and D. Slamanig, “Practical round-optimal blind
    signatures in the standard model,” presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology
    Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 2015, vol. 9216, pp. 233–253.'
  ista: 'Fuchsbauer G, Hanser C, Slamanig D. 2015. Practical round-optimal blind signatures
    in the standard model. CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, LNCS, vol.
    9216, 233–253.'
  mla: Fuchsbauer, Georg, et al. <i>Practical Round-Optimal Blind Signatures in the
    Standard Model</i>. Vol. 9216, Springer, 2015, pp. 233–53, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12</a>.
  short: G. Fuchsbauer, C. Hanser, D. Slamanig, in:, Springer, 2015, pp. 233–253.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
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date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:53:46Z
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doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_12
ec_funded: 1
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_id: '1648'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Generalized Selective Decryption (GSD), introduced by Panjwani [TCC’07], is
    a game for a symmetric encryption scheme Enc that captures the difficulty of proving
    adaptive security of certain protocols, most notably the Logical Key Hierarchy
    (LKH) multicast encryption protocol. In the GSD game there are n keys k1,...,
    kn, which the adversary may adaptively corrupt (learn); moreover, it can ask for
    encryptions Encki (kj) of keys under other keys. The adversary’s task is to distinguish
    keys (which it cannot trivially compute) from random. Proving the hardness of
    GSD assuming only IND-CPA security of Enc is surprisingly hard. Using “complexity
    leveraging” loses a factor exponential in n, which makes the proof practically
    meaningless. We can think of the GSD game as building a graph on n vertices, where
    we add an edge i → j when the adversary asks for an encryption of kj under ki.
    If restricted to graphs of depth ℓ, Panjwani gave a reduction that loses only
    a factor exponential in ℓ (not n). To date, this is the only non-trivial result
    known for GSD. In this paper we give almost-polynomial reductions for large classes
    of graphs. Most importantly, we prove the security of the GSD game restricted
    to trees losing only a quasi-polynomial factor n3 log n+5. Trees are an important
    special case capturing real-world protocols like the LKH protocol. Our new bound
    improves upon Panjwani’s on some LKH variants proposed in the literature where
    the underlying tree is not balanced. Our proof builds on ideas from the “nested
    hybrids” technique recently introduced by Fuchsbauer et al. [Asiacrypt’14] for
    proving the adaptive security of constrained PRFs.
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  id: 46B4C3EE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Fuchsbauer
- first_name: Zahra
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- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
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citation:
  ama: 'Fuchsbauer G, Jafargholi Z, Pietrzak KZ. A quasipolynomial reduction for generalized
    selective decryption on trees. In: Vol 9215. Springer; 2015:601-620. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29">10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29</a>'
  apa: 'Fuchsbauer, G., Jafargholi, Z., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015). A quasipolynomial
    reduction for generalized selective decryption on trees (Vol. 9215, pp. 601–620).
    Presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA,
    USA: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29</a>'
  chicago: Fuchsbauer, Georg, Zahra Jafargholi, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “A Quasipolynomial
    Reduction for Generalized Selective Decryption on Trees,” 9215:601–20. Springer,
    2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29</a>.
  ieee: 'G. Fuchsbauer, Z. Jafargholi, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “A quasipolynomial reduction
    for generalized selective decryption on trees,” presented at the CRYPTO: International
    Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 2015, vol. 9215, pp. 601–620.'
  ista: 'Fuchsbauer G, Jafargholi Z, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. A quasipolynomial reduction
    for generalized selective decryption on trees. CRYPTO: International Cryptology
    Conference, LNCS, vol. 9215, 601–620.'
  mla: Fuchsbauer, Georg, et al. <i>A Quasipolynomial Reduction for Generalized Selective
    Decryption on Trees</i>. Vol. 9215, Springer, 2015, pp. 601–20, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29">10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_29</a>.
  short: G. Fuchsbauer, Z. Jafargholi, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, Springer, 2015, pp. 601–620.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2015-08-16
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date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:14Z
date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-22T14:34:43Z
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_id: '1649'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'We extend a commitment scheme based on the learning with errors over rings
    (RLWE) problem, and present efficient companion zeroknowledge proofs of knowledge.
    Our scheme maps elements from the ring (or equivalently, n elements from '
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author:
- first_name: Fabrice
  full_name: Benhamouda, Fabrice
  last_name: Benhamouda
- first_name: Stephan
  full_name: Krenn, Stephan
  last_name: Krenn
- first_name: Vadim
  full_name: Lyubashevsky, Vadim
  last_name: Lyubashevsky
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
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citation:
  ama: Benhamouda F, Krenn S, Lyubashevsky V, Pietrzak KZ. Efficient zero-knowledge
    proofs for commitments from learning with errors over rings. 2015;9326:305-325.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16">10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16</a>
  apa: 'Benhamouda, F., Krenn, S., Lyubashevsky, V., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015).
    Efficient zero-knowledge proofs for commitments from learning with errors over
    rings. Presented at the ESORICS: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security,
    Vienna, Austria: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16</a>'
  chicago: Benhamouda, Fabrice, Stephan Krenn, Vadim Lyubashevsky, and Krzysztof Z
    Pietrzak. “Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Commitments from Learning with
    Errors over Rings.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16</a>.
  ieee: F. Benhamouda, S. Krenn, V. Lyubashevsky, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Efficient zero-knowledge
    proofs for commitments from learning with errors over rings,” vol. 9326. Springer,
    pp. 305–325, 2015.
  ista: Benhamouda F, Krenn S, Lyubashevsky V, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. Efficient zero-knowledge
    proofs for commitments from learning with errors over rings. 9326, 305–325.
  mla: Benhamouda, Fabrice, et al. <i>Efficient Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Commitments
    from Learning with Errors over Rings</i>. Vol. 9326, Springer, 2015, pp. 305–25,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16">10.1007/978-3-319-24174-6_16</a>.
  short: F. Benhamouda, S. Krenn, V. Lyubashevsky, K.Z. Pietrzak, 9326 (2015) 305–325.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-09-25
  location: Vienna, Austria
  name: 'ESORICS: European Symposium on Research in Computer Security'
  start_date: 2015-09-21
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:15Z
date_published: 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T08:40:11Z
day: '01'
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- '004'
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_id: '1650'
abstract:
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  text: "We consider the task of deriving a key with high HILL entropy (i.e., being
    computationally indistinguishable from a key with high min-entropy) from an unpredictable
    source.\r\n\r\nPrevious to this work, the only known way to transform unpredictability
    into a key that was ϵ indistinguishable from having min-entropy was via pseudorandomness,
    for example by Goldreich-Levin (GL) hardcore bits. This approach has the inherent
    limitation that from a source with k bits of unpredictability entropy one can
    derive a key of length (and thus HILL entropy) at most k−2log(1/ϵ) bits. In many
    settings, e.g. when dealing with biometric data, such a 2log(1/ϵ) bit entropy
    loss in not an option. Our main technical contribution is a theorem that states
    that in the high entropy regime, unpredictability implies HILL entropy. Concretely,
    any variable K with |K|−d bits of unpredictability entropy has the same amount
    of so called metric entropy (against real-valued, deterministic distinguishers),
    which is known to imply the same amount of HILL entropy. The loss in circuit size
    in this argument is exponential in the entropy gap d, and thus this result only
    applies for small d (i.e., where the size of distinguishers considered is exponential
    in d).\r\n\r\nTo overcome the above restriction, we investigate if it’s possible
    to first “condense” unpredictability entropy and make the entropy gap small. We
    show that any source with k bits of unpredictability can be condensed into a source
    of length k with k−3 bits of unpredictability entropy. Our condenser simply “abuses&quot;
    the GL construction and derives a k bit key from a source with k bits of unpredicatibily.
    The original GL theorem implies nothing when extracting that many bits, but we
    show that in this regime, GL still behaves like a “condenser&quot; for unpredictability.
    This result comes with two caveats (1) the loss in circuit size is exponential
    in k and (2) we require that the source we start with has no HILL entropy (equivalently,
    one can efficiently check if a guess is correct). We leave it as an intriguing
    open problem to overcome these restrictions or to prove they’re inherent."
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- first_name: Maciej
  full_name: Skórski, Maciej
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- first_name: Alexander
  full_name: Golovnev, Alexander
  last_name: Golovnev
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
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  last_name: Pietrzak
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  ama: 'Skórski M, Golovnev A, Pietrzak KZ. Condensed unpredictability . In: Vol 9134.
    Springer; 2015:1046-1057. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85">10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85</a>'
  apa: 'Skórski, M., Golovnev, A., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015). Condensed unpredictability  (Vol.
    9134, pp. 1046–1057). Presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming,
    Kyoto, Japan: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85</a>'
  chicago: Skórski, Maciej, Alexander Golovnev, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “Condensed
    Unpredictability ,” 9134:1046–57. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85</a>.
  ieee: 'M. Skórski, A. Golovnev, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Condensed unpredictability
    ,” presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, Kyoto, Japan,
    2015, vol. 9134, pp. 1046–1057.'
  ista: 'Skórski M, Golovnev A, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. Condensed unpredictability . ICALP:
    Automata, Languages and Programming, LNCS, vol. 9134, 1046–1057.'
  mla: Skórski, Maciej, et al. <i>Condensed Unpredictability </i>. Vol. 9134, Springer,
    2015, pp. 1046–57, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85">10.1007/978-3-662-47672-7_85</a>.
  short: M. Skórski, A. Golovnev, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, Springer, 2015, pp. 1046–1057.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-07-10
  location: Kyoto, Japan
  name: 'ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming'
  start_date: 2015-07-06
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_id: '1651'
abstract:
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  text: Cryptographic e-cash allows off-line electronic transactions between a bank,
    users and merchants in a secure and anonymous fashion. A plethora of e-cash constructions
    has been proposed in the literature; however, these traditional e-cash schemes
    only allow coins to be transferred once between users and merchants. Ideally,
    we would like users to be able to transfer coins between each other multiple times
    before deposit, as happens with physical cash. “Transferable” e-cash schemes are
    the solution to this problem. Unfortunately, the currently proposed schemes are
    either completely impractical or do not achieve the desirable anonymity properties
    without compromises, such as assuming the existence of a trusted “judge” who can
    trace all coins and users in the system. This paper presents the first efficient
    and fully anonymous transferable e-cash scheme without any trusted third parties.
    We start by revising the security and anonymity properties of transferable e-cash
    to capture issues that were previously overlooked. For our construction we use
    the recently proposed malleable signatures by Chase et al. to allow the secure
    and anonymous transfer of coins, combined with a new efficient double-spending
    detection mechanism. Finally, we discuss an instantiation of our construction.
acknowledgement: Work done as an intern in Microsoft Research Redmond and as a student
  at Brown University, where supported by NSF grant 0964379. Supported by the European
  Research Council, ERC Starting Grant (259668-PSPC).
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  full_name: Baldimtsi, Foteini
  last_name: Baldimtsi
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  full_name: Chase, Melissa
  last_name: Chase
- first_name: Georg
  full_name: Fuchsbauer, Georg
  id: 46B4C3EE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Fuchsbauer
- first_name: Markulf
  full_name: Kohlweiss, Markulf
  last_name: Kohlweiss
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  ama: 'Baldimtsi F, Chase M, Fuchsbauer G, Kohlweiss M. Anonymous transferable e-cash.
    In: <i>Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015</i>. Vol 9020. Springer; 2015:101-124.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5">10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5</a>'
  apa: 'Baldimtsi, F., Chase, M., Fuchsbauer, G., &#38; Kohlweiss, M. (2015). Anonymous
    transferable e-cash. In <i>Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015</i> (Vol. 9020,
    pp. 101–124). Gaithersburg, MD, United States: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5</a>'
  chicago: Baldimtsi, Foteini, Melissa Chase, Georg Fuchsbauer, and Markulf Kohlweiss.
    “Anonymous Transferable E-Cash.” In <i>Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015</i>,
    9020:101–24. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5</a>.
  ieee: F. Baldimtsi, M. Chase, G. Fuchsbauer, and M. Kohlweiss, “Anonymous transferable
    e-cash,” in <i>Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015</i>, Gaithersburg, MD, United
    States, 2015, vol. 9020, pp. 101–124.
  ista: 'Baldimtsi F, Chase M, Fuchsbauer G, Kohlweiss M. 2015. Anonymous transferable
    e-cash. Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015. PKC: Public Key Crypography, LNCS,
    vol. 9020, 101–124.'
  mla: Baldimtsi, Foteini, et al. “Anonymous Transferable E-Cash.” <i>Public-Key Cryptography
    - PKC 2015</i>, vol. 9020, Springer, 2015, pp. 101–24, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5">10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5</a>.
  short: F. Baldimtsi, M. Chase, G. Fuchsbauer, M. Kohlweiss, in:, Public-Key Cryptography
    - PKC 2015, Springer, 2015, pp. 101–124.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-04-01
  location: Gaithersburg, MD, United States
  name: 'PKC: Public Key Crypography'
  start_date: 2015-03-30
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:15Z
date_published: 2015-03-17T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-06-18T17:50:38Z
day: '17'
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  isi:
  - '000406205700005'
fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5
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isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
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  url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46447-2_5
month: '03'
oa: 1
oa_version: Published Version
page: 101 - 124
project:
- _id: 258C570E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: Public-Key Cryptography - PKC 2015
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-3-662-46446-5
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
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title: Anonymous transferable e-cash
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volume: 9020
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1652'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: We develop new theoretical tools for proving lower-bounds on the (amortized)
    complexity of certain functions in models of parallel computation. We apply the
    tools to construct a class of functions with high amortized memory complexity
    in the parallel Random Oracle Model (pROM); a variant of the standard ROM allowing
    for batches of simultaneous queries. In particular we obtain a new, more robust,
    type of Memory-Hard Functions (MHF); a security primitive which has recently been
    gaining acceptance in practice as an effective means of countering brute-force
    attacks on security relevant functions. Along the way we also demonstrate an important
    shortcoming of previous definitions of MHFs and give a new definition addressing
    the problem. The tools we develop represent an adaptation of the powerful pebbling
    paradigm (initially introduced by Hewitt and Paterson [HP70] and Cook [Coo73])
    to a simple and intuitive parallel setting. We define a simple pebbling game Gp
    over graphs which aims to abstract parallel computation in an intuitive way. As
    a conceptual contribution we define a measure of pebbling complexity for graphs
    called cumulative complexity (CC) and show how it overcomes a crucial shortcoming
    (in the parallel setting) exhibited by more traditional complexity measures used
    in the past. As a main technical contribution we give an explicit construction
    of a constant in-degree family of graphs whose CC in Gp approaches maximality
    to within a polylogarithmic factor for any graph of equal size (analogous to the
    graphs of Tarjan et. al. [PTC76, LT82] for sequential pebbling games). Finally,
    for a given graph G and related function fG, we derive a lower-bound on the amortized
    memory complexity of fG in the pROM in terms of the CC of G in the game Gp.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Joel F
  full_name: Alwen, Joel F
  id: 2A8DFA8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Alwen
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Serbinenko, Vladimir
  last_name: Serbinenko
citation:
  ama: 'Alwen JF, Serbinenko V. High parallel complexity graphs and memory-hard functions.
    In: <i>Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing</i>.
    ACM; 2015:595-603. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622">10.1145/2746539.2746622</a>'
  apa: 'Alwen, J. F., &#38; Serbinenko, V. (2015). High parallel complexity graphs
    and memory-hard functions. In <i>Proceedings of the 47th annual ACM symposium
    on Theory of computing</i> (pp. 595–603). Portland, OR, United States: ACM. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622">https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622</a>'
  chicago: Alwen, Joel F, and Vladimir Serbinenko. “High Parallel Complexity Graphs
    and Memory-Hard Functions.” In <i>Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Symposium
    on Theory of Computing</i>, 595–603. ACM, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622">https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622</a>.
  ieee: J. F. Alwen and V. Serbinenko, “High parallel complexity graphs and memory-hard
    functions,” in <i>Proceedings of the 47th annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing</i>,
    Portland, OR, United States, 2015, pp. 595–603.
  ista: 'Alwen JF, Serbinenko V. 2015. High parallel complexity graphs and memory-hard
    functions. Proceedings of the 47th annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing.
    STOC: Symposium on the Theory of Computing, 595–603.'
  mla: Alwen, Joel F., and Vladimir Serbinenko. “High Parallel Complexity Graphs and
    Memory-Hard Functions.” <i>Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory
    of Computing</i>, ACM, 2015, pp. 595–603, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/2746539.2746622">10.1145/2746539.2746622</a>.
  short: J.F. Alwen, V. Serbinenko, in:, Proceedings of the 47th Annual ACM Symposium
    on Theory of Computing, ACM, 2015, pp. 595–603.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-06-17
  location: Portland, OR, United States
  name: 'STOC: Symposium on the Theory of Computing'
  start_date: 2015-06-14
corr_author: '1'
cryptoeprintid: 1
das_tickbox: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:16Z
date_published: 2015-06-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-06-22T14:08:55Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1145/2746539.2746622
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
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  - 2014/238
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  - '000485296600063'
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isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
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month: '06'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
page: 595 - 603
project:
- _id: 258C570E-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425
  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: Proceedings of the 47th annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
publication_status: published
publisher: ACM
publist_id: '5498'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
status: public
title: High parallel complexity graphs and memory-hard functions
type: conference
user_id: 2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1654'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "HMAC and its variant NMAC are the most popular approaches to deriving a MAC
    (and more generally, a PRF) from a cryptographic hash function. Despite nearly
    two decades of research, their exact security still remains far from understood
    in many different contexts. Indeed, recent works have re-surfaced interest for
    {\\em generic} attacks, i.e., attacks that treat the compression function of the
    underlying hash function as a black box.\r\n\r\nGeneric security can be proved
    in a model where the underlying compression function is modeled as a random function
    -- yet, to date, the question of proving tight, non-trivial bounds on the generic
    security of HMAC/NMAC even as a PRF remains a challenging open question.\r\n\r\nIn
    this paper, we ask the question of whether a small modification to HMAC and NMAC
    can allow us to exactly characterize the security of the resulting constructions,
    while only incurring little penalty with respect to efficiency. To this end, we
    present simple variants of NMAC and HMAC, for which we prove tight bounds on the
    generic PRF security, expressed in terms of numbers of construction and compression
    function queries necessary to break the construction. All of our constructions
    are obtained via a (near) {\\em black-box} modification of NMAC and HMAC, which
    can be interpreted as an initial step of key-dependent message pre-processing.\r\n\r\nWhile
    our focus is on PRF security, a further attractive feature of our new constructions
    is that they clearly defeat all recent generic attacks against properties such
    as state recovery and universal forgery. These exploit properties of the so-called
    ``functional graph'' which are not directly accessible in our new constructions. "
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- LNCS
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author:
- first_name: Peter
  full_name: Gazi, Peter
  id: 3E0BFE38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gazi
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
- first_name: Stefano
  full_name: Tessaro, Stefano
  last_name: Tessaro
citation:
  ama: Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. Generic security of NMAC and HMAC with input
    whitening. 2015;9453:85-109. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4">10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4</a>
  apa: 'Gazi, P., Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Tessaro, S. (2015). Generic security of NMAC
    and HMAC with input whitening. Presented at the ASIACRYPT: Theory and Application
    of Cryptology and Information Security, Auckland, New Zealand: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4</a>'
  chicago: Gazi, Peter, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Stefano Tessaro. “Generic Security
    of NMAC and HMAC with Input Whitening.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer,
    2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4</a>.
  ieee: P. Gazi, K. Z. Pietrzak, and S. Tessaro, “Generic security of NMAC and HMAC
    with input whitening,” vol. 9453. Springer, pp. 85–109, 2015.
  ista: Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. 2015. Generic security of NMAC and HMAC with
    input whitening. 9453, 85–109.
  mla: Gazi, Peter, et al. <i>Generic Security of NMAC and HMAC with Input Whitening</i>.
    Vol. 9453, Springer, 2015, pp. 85–109, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4">10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4</a>.
  short: P. Gazi, K.Z. Pietrzak, S. Tessaro, 9453 (2015) 85–109.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-12-03
  location: Auckland, New Zealand
  name: 'ASIACRYPT: Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security'
  start_date: 2015-11-29
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:17Z
date_published: 2015-12-30T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:09:09Z
day: '30'
ddc:
- '004'
- '005'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48800-3_4
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  isi:
  - '000375152100004'
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
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publisher: Springer
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pubrep_id: '676'
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title: Generic security of NMAC and HMAC with input whitening
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volume: 9453
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1668'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "We revisit the security (as a pseudorandom permutation) of cascading-based
    constructions for block-cipher key-length extension. Previous works typically
    considered the extreme case where the adversary is given the entire codebook of
    the construction, the only complexity measure being the number qe of queries to
    the underlying ideal block cipher, representing adversary’s secret-key-independent
    computation. Here, we initiate a systematic study of the more natural case of
    an adversary restricted to adaptively learning a number qc of plaintext/ciphertext
    pairs that is less than the entire codebook. For any such qc, we aim to determine
    the highest number of block-cipher queries qe the adversary can issue without
    being able to successfully distinguish the construction (under a secret key) from
    a random permutation.\r\nMore concretely, we show the following results for key-length
    extension schemes using a block cipher with n-bit blocks and κ-bit keys:\r\nPlain
    cascades of length ℓ=2r+1 are secure whenever qcqre≪2r(κ+n), qc≪2κ and qe≪22κ.
    The bound for r=1 also applies to two-key triple encryption (as used within Triple
    DES).\r\nThe r-round XOR-cascade is secure as long as qcqre≪2r(κ+n), matching
    an attack by Gaži (CRYPTO 2013).\r\nWe fully characterize the security of Gaži
    and Tessaro’s two-call "
alternative_title:
- LNCS
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author:
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  full_name: Gazi, Peter
  id: 3E0BFE38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gazi
- first_name: Jooyoung
  full_name: Lee, Jooyoung
  last_name: Lee
- first_name: Yannick
  full_name: Seurin, Yannick
  last_name: Seurin
- first_name: John
  full_name: Steinberger, John
  last_name: Steinberger
- first_name: Stefano
  full_name: Tessaro, Stefano
  last_name: Tessaro
citation:
  ama: 'Gazi P, Lee J, Seurin Y, Steinberger J, Tessaro S. Relaxing full-codebook
    security: A refined analysis of key-length extension schemes. 2015;9054:319-341.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16">10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16</a>'
  apa: 'Gazi, P., Lee, J., Seurin, Y., Steinberger, J., &#38; Tessaro, S. (2015).
    Relaxing full-codebook security: A refined analysis of key-length extension schemes.
    Presented at the FSE: Fast Software Encryption, Istanbul, Turkey: Springer. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16</a>'
  chicago: 'Gazi, Peter, Jooyoung Lee, Yannick Seurin, John Steinberger, and Stefano
    Tessaro. “Relaxing Full-Codebook Security: A Refined Analysis of Key-Length Extension
    Schemes.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16</a>.'
  ieee: 'P. Gazi, J. Lee, Y. Seurin, J. Steinberger, and S. Tessaro, “Relaxing full-codebook
    security: A refined analysis of key-length extension schemes,” vol. 9054. Springer,
    pp. 319–341, 2015.'
  ista: 'Gazi P, Lee J, Seurin Y, Steinberger J, Tessaro S. 2015. Relaxing full-codebook
    security: A refined analysis of key-length extension schemes. 9054, 319–341.'
  mla: 'Gazi, Peter, et al. <i>Relaxing Full-Codebook Security: A Refined Analysis
    of Key-Length Extension Schemes</i>. Vol. 9054, Springer, 2015, pp. 319–41, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16">10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16</a>.'
  short: P. Gazi, J. Lee, Y. Seurin, J. Steinberger, S. Tessaro, 9054 (2015) 319–341.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-03-11
  location: Istanbul, Turkey
  name: 'FSE: Fast Software Encryption'
  start_date: 2015-03-08
corr_author: '1'
cryptoeprintid: 1
das_tickbox: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:22Z
date_published: 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-06-22T14:09:37Z
day: '12'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48116-5_16
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
  cryptoeprintid:
  - 2015/397
  isi:
  - '000363765800016'
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intvolume: '      9054'
isi: 1
language:
- iso: eng
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month: '08'
oa: 1
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page: 319 - 341
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
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publisher: Springer
publist_id: '5481'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: '1'
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volume: 9054
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1669'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Computational notions of entropy (a.k.a. pseudoentropy) have found many applications,
    including leakage-resilient cryptography, deterministic encryption or memory delegation.
    The most important tools to argue about pseudoentropy are chain rules, which quantify
    by how much (in terms of quantity and quality) the pseudoentropy of a given random
    variable X decreases when conditioned on some other variable Z (think for example
    of X as a secret key and Z as information leaked by a side-channel). In this paper
    we give a very simple and modular proof of the chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy,
    improving best known parameters. Our version allows for increasing the acceptable
    length of leakage in applications up to a constant factor compared to the best
    previous bounds. As a contribution of independent interest, we provide a comprehensive
    study of all known versions of the chain rule, comparing their worst-case strength
    and limitations.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
- first_name: Maciej
  full_name: Skórski, Maciej
  last_name: Skórski
citation:
  ama: Pietrzak KZ, Skórski M. The chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy, revisited. 2015;9230:81-98.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5">10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5</a>
  apa: 'Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Skórski, M. (2015). The chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy,
    revisited. Presented at the LATINCRYPT: Cryptology and Information Security in
    Latin America, Guadalajara, Mexico: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5</a>'
  chicago: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z, and Maciej Skórski. “The Chain Rule for HILL Pseudoentropy,
    Revisited.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5</a>.
  ieee: K. Z. Pietrzak and M. Skórski, “The chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy, revisited,”
    vol. 9230. Springer, pp. 81–98, 2015.
  ista: Pietrzak KZ, Skórski M. 2015. The chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy, revisited.
    9230, 81–98.
  mla: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z., and Maciej Skórski. <i>The Chain Rule for HILL Pseudoentropy,
    Revisited</i>. Vol. 9230, Springer, 2015, pp. 81–98, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5">10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5</a>.
  short: K.Z. Pietrzak, M. Skórski, 9230 (2015) 81–98.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-26
  location: Guadalajara, Mexico
  name: 'LATINCRYPT: Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America'
  start_date: 2015-08-23
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:22Z
date_published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T13:43:07Z
day: '15'
ddc:
- '005'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-22174-8_5
ec_funded: 1
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  isi:
  - '000363793300005'
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  call_identifier: FP7
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status: public
title: The chain rule for HILL pseudoentropy, revisited
type: conference
user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345
volume: 9230
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1671'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper studies the concrete security of PRFs and MACs obtained by keying
    hash functions based on the sponge paradigm. One such hash function is KECCAK,
    selected as NIST’s new SHA-3 standard. In contrast to other approaches like HMAC,
    the exact security of keyed sponges is not well understood. Indeed, recent security
    analyses delivered concrete security bounds which are far from existing attacks.
    This paper aims to close this gap. We prove (nearly) exact bounds on the concrete
    PRF security of keyed sponges using a random permutation. These bounds are tight
    for the most relevant ranges of parameters, i.e., for messages of length (roughly)
    l ≤ min{2n/4, 2r} blocks, where n is the state size and r is the desired output
    length; and for l ≤ q queries (to the construction or the underlying permutation).
    Moreover, we also improve standard-model bounds. As an intermediate step of independent
    interest, we prove tight bounds on the PRF security of the truncated CBC-MAC construction,
    which operates as plain CBC-MAC, but only returns a prefix of the output.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Peter
  full_name: Gazi, Peter
  id: 3E0BFE38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gazi
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
- first_name: Stefano
  full_name: Tessaro, Stefano
  last_name: Tessaro
citation:
  ama: 'Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. The exact PRF security of truncation: Tight
    bounds for keyed sponges and truncated CBC. In: Vol 9215. Springer; 2015:368-387.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18">10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18</a>'
  apa: 'Gazi, P., Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Tessaro, S. (2015). The exact PRF security
    of truncation: Tight bounds for keyed sponges and truncated CBC (Vol. 9215, pp.
    368–387). Presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa
    Barbara, CA, United States: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18</a>'
  chicago: 'Gazi, Peter, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Stefano Tessaro. “The Exact PRF
    Security of Truncation: Tight Bounds for Keyed Sponges and Truncated CBC,” 9215:368–87.
    Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18</a>.'
  ieee: 'P. Gazi, K. Z. Pietrzak, and S. Tessaro, “The exact PRF security of truncation:
    Tight bounds for keyed sponges and truncated CBC,” presented at the CRYPTO: International
    Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 2015, vol. 9215, pp.
    368–387.'
  ista: 'Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Tessaro S. 2015. The exact PRF security of truncation:
    Tight bounds for keyed sponges and truncated CBC. CRYPTO: International Cryptology
    Conference, LNCS, vol. 9215, 368–387.'
  mla: 'Gazi, Peter, et al. <i>The Exact PRF Security of Truncation: Tight Bounds
    for Keyed Sponges and Truncated CBC</i>. Vol. 9215, Springer, 2015, pp. 368–87,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18">10.1007/978-3-662-47989-6_18</a>.'
  short: P. Gazi, K.Z. Pietrzak, S. Tessaro, in:, Springer, 2015, pp. 368–387.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2015-08-16
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:23Z
date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T13:50:18Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '004'
- '005'
department:
- _id: KrPi
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ec_funded: 1
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  - '000364183000018'
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  call_identifier: FP7
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  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
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publisher: Springer
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quality_controlled: '1'
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status: public
title: 'The exact PRF security of truncation: Tight bounds for keyed sponges and truncated
  CBC'
type: conference
user_id: 317138e5-6ab7-11ef-aa6d-ffef3953e345
volume: 9215
year: '2015'
...
---
_id: '1672'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Composable notions of incoercibility aim to forbid a coercer from using anything
    beyond the coerced parties’ inputs and outputs to catch them when they try to
    deceive him. Existing definitions are restricted to weak coercion types, and/or
    are not universally composable. Furthermore, they often make too strong assumptions
    on the knowledge of coerced parties—e.g., they assume they known the identities
    and/or the strategies of other coerced parties, or those of corrupted parties—
    which makes them unsuitable for applications of incoercibility such as e-voting,
    where colluding adversarial parties may attempt to coerce honest voters, e.g.,
    by offering them money for a promised vote, and use their own view to check that
    the voter keeps his end of the bargain. In this work we put forward the first
    universally composable notion of incoercible multi-party computation, which satisfies
    the above intuition and does not assume collusions among coerced parties or knowledge
    of the corrupted set. We define natural notions of UC incoercibility corresponding
    to standard coercion-types, i.e., receipt-freeness and resistance to full-active
    coercion. Importantly, our suggested notion has the unique property that it builds
    on top of the well studied UC framework by Canetti instead of modifying it. This
    guarantees backwards compatibility, and allows us to inherit results from the
    rich UC literature. We then present MPC protocols which realize our notions of
    UC incoercibility given access to an arguably minimal setup—namely honestly generate
    tamper-proof hardware performing a very simple cryptographic operation—e.g., a
    smart card. This is, to our knowledge, the first proposed construction of an MPC
    protocol (for more than two parties) that is incoercibly secure and universally
    composable, and therefore the first construction of a universally composable receipt-free
    e-voting protocol.
acknowledgement: Joël Alwen was supported by the ERC starting grant (259668-PSPC).
  Rafail Ostrovsky was supported in part by NSF grants 09165174, 1065276, 1118126
  and 1136174, US-Israel BSF grant 2008411, OKAWA Foundation Research Award, IBM Faculty
  Research Award, Xerox Faculty Research Award, B. John Garrick Foundation Award,
  Teradata Research Award, Lockheed-Martin Corporation Research Award, and the Defense
  Advanced Research Projects Agency through the U.S. Office of Naval Research under
  Contract N00014 -11 -1-0392. The views expressed are those of the author and do
  not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the
  U.S. Government. Vassilis Zikas was supported in part by the Swiss National Science
  Foundation (SNF) via the Ambizione grant PZ00P-2142549.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Joel F
  full_name: Alwen, Joel F
  id: 2A8DFA8C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Alwen
- first_name: Rafail
  full_name: Ostrovsky, Rafail
  last_name: Ostrovsky
- first_name: Hongsheng
  full_name: Zhou, Hongsheng
  last_name: Zhou
- first_name: Vassilis
  full_name: Zikas, Vassilis
  last_name: Zikas
citation:
  ama: 'Alwen JF, Ostrovsky R, Zhou H, Zikas V. Incoercible multi-party computation
    and universally composable receipt-free voting. In: <i>Advances in Cryptology
    - CRYPTO 2015</i>. Vol 9216. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer; 2015:763-780.
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37</a>'
  apa: 'Alwen, J. F., Ostrovsky, R., Zhou, H., &#38; Zikas, V. (2015). Incoercible
    multi-party computation and universally composable receipt-free voting. In <i>Advances
    in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015</i> (Vol. 9216, pp. 763–780). Santa Barbara, CA, United
    States: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37</a>'
  chicago: Alwen, Joel F, Rafail Ostrovsky, Hongsheng Zhou, and Vassilis Zikas. “Incoercible
    Multi-Party Computation and Universally Composable Receipt-Free Voting.” In <i>Advances
    in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015</i>, 9216:763–80. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
    Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37</a>.
  ieee: J. F. Alwen, R. Ostrovsky, H. Zhou, and V. Zikas, “Incoercible multi-party
    computation and universally composable receipt-free voting,” in <i>Advances in
    Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015</i>, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, 2015, vol. 9216,
    pp. 763–780.
  ista: 'Alwen JF, Ostrovsky R, Zhou H, Zikas V. 2015. Incoercible multi-party computation
    and universally composable receipt-free voting. Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO
    2015. CRYPTO: International Cryptology ConferenceLecture Notes in Computer Science,
    LNCS, vol. 9216, 763–780.'
  mla: Alwen, Joel F., et al. “Incoercible Multi-Party Computation and Universally
    Composable Receipt-Free Voting.” <i>Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015</i>,
    vol. 9216, Springer, 2015, pp. 763–80, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37</a>.
  short: J.F. Alwen, R. Ostrovsky, H. Zhou, V. Zikas, in:, Advances in Cryptology
    - CRYPTO 2015, Springer, 2015, pp. 763–780.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2015-08-16
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:23Z
date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:21:24Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '000'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_37
ec_funded: 1
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  isi:
  - '000364183100037'
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015
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  eisbn:
  - 978-3-662-48000-7
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  - 978-3-662-47999-5
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series_title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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title: Incoercible multi-party computation and universally composable receipt-free
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...
---
_id: '1675'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Proofs of work (PoW) have been suggested by Dwork and Naor (Crypto’92) as
    protection to a shared resource. The basic idea is to ask the service requestor
    to dedicate some non-trivial amount of computational work to every request. The
    original applications included prevention of spam and protection against denial
    of service attacks. More recently, PoWs have been used to prevent double spending
    in the Bitcoin digital currency system. In this work, we put forward an alternative
    concept for PoWs - so-called proofs of space (PoS), where a service requestor
    must dedicate a significant amount of disk space as opposed to computation. We
    construct secure PoS schemes in the random oracle model (with one additional mild
    assumption required for the proof to go through), using graphs with high “pebbling
    complexity” and Merkle hash-trees. We discuss some applications, including follow-up
    work where a decentralized digital currency scheme called Spacecoin is constructed
    that uses PoS (instead of wasteful PoW like in Bitcoin) to prevent double spending.
    The main technical contribution of this work is the construction of (directed,
    loop-free) graphs on N vertices with in-degree O(log logN) such that even if one
    places Θ(N) pebbles on the nodes of the graph, there’s a constant fraction of
    nodes that needs Θ(N) steps to be pebbled (where in every step one can put a pebble
    on a node if all its parents have a pebble).
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Dziembowski, Stefan
  last_name: Dziembowski
- first_name: Sebastian
  full_name: Faust, Sebastian
  last_name: Faust
- first_name: Vladimir
  full_name: Kolmogorov, Vladimir
  id: 3D50B0BA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Kolmogorov
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
citation:
  ama: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. Proofs of space. In: <i>35th
    Annual Cryptology Conference</i>. Vol 9216. Springer; 2015:585-605. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>'
  apa: 'Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015).
    Proofs of space. In <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i> (Vol. 9216, pp. 585–605).
    Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>'
  chicago: Dziembowski, Stefan, Sebastian Faust, Vladimir Kolmogorov, and Krzysztof
    Z Pietrzak. “Proofs of Space.” In <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>, 9216:585–605.
    Springer, 2015. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>.
  ieee: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Proofs of space,”
    in <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>, Santa Barbara, CA, United States,
    2015, vol. 9216, pp. 585–605.
  ista: 'Dziembowski S, Faust S, Kolmogorov V, Pietrzak KZ. 2015. Proofs of space.
    35th Annual Cryptology Conference. CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference,
    LNCS, vol. 9216, 585–605.'
  mla: Dziembowski, Stefan, et al. “Proofs of Space.” <i>35th Annual Cryptology Conference</i>,
    vol. 9216, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29">10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29</a>.
  short: S. Dziembowski, S. Faust, V. Kolmogorov, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, 35th Annual
    Cryptology Conference, Springer, 2015, pp. 585–605.
conference:
  end_date: 2015-08-20
  location: Santa Barbara, CA, United States
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2015-08-16
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:53:24Z
date_published: 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:55:25Z
day: '01'
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- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29
ec_funded: 1
external_id:
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '616160'
  name: 'Discrete Optimization in Computer Vision: Theory and Practice'
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: 35th Annual Cryptology Conference
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  isbn:
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  - 0302-9743
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publisher: Springer
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---
_id: '2219'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Recently, Döttling et al. (ASIACRYPT 2012) proposed the first chosen-ciphertext
    (IND-CCA) secure public-key encryption scheme from the learning parity with noise
    (LPN) assumption. In this work we give an alternative scheme which is conceptually
    simpler and more efficient. At the core of our construction is a trapdoor technique
    originally proposed for lattices by Micciancio and Peikert (EUROCRYPT 2012), which
    we adapt to the LPN setting. The main technical tool is a new double-trapdoor
    mechanism, together with a trapdoor switching lemma based on a computational variant
    of the leftover hash lemma.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Eike
  full_name: Kiltz, Eike
  last_name: Kiltz
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Masny, Daniel
  last_name: Masny
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
citation:
  ama: 'Kiltz E, Masny D, Pietrzak KZ. Simple chosen-ciphertext security from low
    noise LPN. In: Vol 8383. Springer; 2014:1-18. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1">10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1</a>'
  apa: 'Kiltz, E., Masny, D., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2014). Simple chosen-ciphertext
    security from low noise LPN (Vol. 8383, pp. 1–18). Presented at the IACR: International
    Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1</a>'
  chicago: Kiltz, Eike, Daniel Masny, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “Simple Chosen-Ciphertext
    Security from Low Noise LPN,” 8383:1–18. Springer, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1</a>.
  ieee: 'E. Kiltz, D. Masny, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Simple chosen-ciphertext security
    from low noise LPN,” presented at the IACR: International Conference on Practice
    and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, 2014, vol. 8383, pp. 1–18.'
  ista: 'Kiltz E, Masny D, Pietrzak KZ. 2014. Simple chosen-ciphertext security from
    low noise LPN. IACR: International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key
    Cryptography, LNCS, vol. 8383, 1–18.'
  mla: Kiltz, Eike, et al. <i>Simple Chosen-Ciphertext Security from Low Noise LPN</i>.
    Vol. 8383, Springer, 2014, pp. 1–18, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1">10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1</a>.
  short: E. Kiltz, D. Masny, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, Springer, 2014, pp. 1–18.
conference:
  name: 'IACR: International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:24Z
date_published: 2014-03-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:56:05Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1
fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54631-0_1
intvolume: '      8383'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
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  url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/401
month: '03'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
page: 1 - 18
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-364254630-3
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer
publist_id: '4748'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: Simple chosen-ciphertext security from low noise LPN
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volume: 8383
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...
---
_id: '2236'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Consider a joint distribution (X,A) on a set. We show that for any family
    of distinguishers, there exists a simulator such that 1 no function in can distinguish
    (X,A) from (X,h(X)) with advantage ε, 2 h is only O(2 3ℓ ε -2) times less efficient
    than the functions in. For the most interesting settings of the parameters (in
    particular, the cryptographic case where X has superlogarithmic min-entropy, ε
    &gt; 0 is negligible and consists of circuits of polynomial size), we can make
    the simulator h deterministic. As an illustrative application of our theorem,
    we give a new security proof for the leakage-resilient stream-cipher from Eurocrypt'09.
    Our proof is simpler and quantitatively much better than the original proof using
    the dense model theorem, giving meaningful security guarantees if instantiated
    with a standard blockcipher like AES. Subsequent to this work, Chung, Lui and
    Pass gave an interactive variant of our main theorem, and used it to investigate
    weak notions of Zero-Knowledge. Vadhan and Zheng give a more constructive version
    of our theorem using their new uniform min-max theorem.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Dimitar
  full_name: Jetchev, Dimitar
  last_name: Jetchev
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
citation:
  ama: 'Jetchev D, Pietrzak KZ. How to fake auxiliary input. In: Lindell Y, ed. Vol
    8349. Springer; 2014:566-590. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24">10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24</a>'
  apa: 'Jetchev, D., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2014). How to fake auxiliary input. In
    Y. Lindell (Ed.) (Vol. 8349, pp. 566–590). Presented at the TCC: Theory of Cryptography
    Conference, San Diego, USA: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24</a>'
  chicago: Jetchev, Dimitar, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “How to Fake Auxiliary Input.”
    edited by Yehuda Lindell, 8349:566–90. Springer, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24</a>.
  ieee: 'D. Jetchev and K. Z. Pietrzak, “How to fake auxiliary input,” presented at
    the TCC: Theory of Cryptography Conference, San Diego, USA, 2014, vol. 8349, pp.
    566–590.'
  ista: 'Jetchev D, Pietrzak KZ. 2014. How to fake auxiliary input. TCC: Theory of
    Cryptography Conference, LNCS, vol. 8349, 566–590.'
  mla: Jetchev, Dimitar, and Krzysztof Z. Pietrzak. <i>How to Fake Auxiliary Input</i>.
    Edited by Yehuda Lindell, vol. 8349, Springer, 2014, pp. 566–90, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24">10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24</a>.
  short: D. Jetchev, K.Z. Pietrzak, in:, Y. Lindell (Ed.), Springer, 2014, pp. 566–590.
conference:
  end_date: 2014-02-26
  location: San Diego, USA
  name: 'TCC: Theory of Cryptography Conference'
  start_date: 2014-02-24
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:29Z
date_published: 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-06-11T08:02:25Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '004'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-54242-8_24
ec_funded: 1
editor:
- first_name: Yehuda
  full_name: Lindell, Yehuda
  last_name: Lindell
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---
_id: '2852'
abstract:
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  text: A robust combiner for hash functions takes two candidate implementations and
    constructs a hash function which is secure as long as at least one of the candidates
    is secure. So far, hash function combiners only aim at preserving a single property
    such as collision-resistance or pseudorandomness. However, when hash functions
    are used in protocols like TLS they are often required to provide several properties
    simultaneously. We therefore put forward the notion of robust multi-property combiners
    and elaborate on different definitions for such combiners. We then propose a combiner
    that provably preserves (target) collision-resistance, pseudorandomness, and being
    a secure message authentication code. This combiner satisfies the strongest notion
    we propose, which requires that the combined function satisfies every security
    property which is satisfied by at least one of the underlying hash function. If
    the underlying hash functions have output length n, the combiner has output length
    2 n. This basically matches a known lower bound for black-box combiners for collision-resistance
    only, thus the other properties can be achieved without penalizing the length
    of the hash values. We then propose a combiner which also preserves the property
    of being indifferentiable from a random oracle, slightly increasing the output
    length to 2 n+ω(log n). Moreover, we show how to augment our constructions in
    order to make them also robust for the one-wayness property, but in this case
    require an a priory upper bound on the input length.
article_processing_charge: No
author:
- first_name: Marc
  full_name: Fischlin, Marc
  last_name: Fischlin
- first_name: Anja
  full_name: Lehmann, Anja
  last_name: Lehmann
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
citation:
  ama: Fischlin M, Lehmann A, Pietrzak KZ. Robust multi-property combiners for hash
    functions. <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. 2014;27(3):397-428. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7">10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7</a>
  apa: Fischlin, M., Lehmann, A., &#38; Pietrzak, K. Z. (2014). Robust multi-property
    combiners for hash functions. <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7</a>
  chicago: Fischlin, Marc, Anja Lehmann, and Krzysztof Z Pietrzak. “Robust Multi-Property
    Combiners for Hash Functions.” <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>. Springer, 2014. <a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7">https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7</a>.
  ieee: M. Fischlin, A. Lehmann, and K. Z. Pietrzak, “Robust multi-property combiners
    for hash functions,” <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>, vol. 27, no. 3. Springer, pp.
    397–428, 2014.
  ista: Fischlin M, Lehmann A, Pietrzak KZ. 2014. Robust multi-property combiners
    for hash functions. Journal of Cryptology. 27(3), 397–428.
  mla: Fischlin, Marc, et al. “Robust Multi-Property Combiners for Hash Functions.”
    <i>Journal of Cryptology</i>, vol. 27, no. 3, Springer, 2014, pp. 397–428, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7">10.1007/s00145-013-9148-7</a>.
  short: M. Fischlin, A. Lehmann, K.Z. Pietrzak, Journal of Cryptology 27 (2014) 397–428.
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:59:56Z
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abstract:
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  text: 'NMAC is a mode of operation which turns a fixed input-length keyed hash function
    f into a variable input-length function. A practical single-key variant of NMAC
    called HMAC is a very popular and widely deployed message authentication code
    (MAC). Security proofs and attacks for NMAC can typically be lifted to HMAC. NMAC
    was introduced by Bellare, Canetti and Krawczyk [Crypto''96], who proved it to
    be a secure pseudorandom function (PRF), and thus also a MAC, assuming that (1)
    f is a PRF and (2) the function we get when cascading f is weakly collision-resistant.
    Unfortunately, HMAC is typically instantiated with cryptographic hash functions
    like MD5 or SHA-1 for which (2) has been found to be wrong. To restore the provable
    guarantees for NMAC, Bellare [Crypto''06] showed its security based solely on
    the assumption that f is a PRF, albeit via a non-uniform reduction. - Our first
    contribution is a simpler and uniform proof for this fact: If f is an ε-secure
    PRF (against q queries) and a δ-non-adaptively secure PRF (against q queries),
    then NMAC f is an (ε+ℓqδ)-secure PRF against q queries of length at most ℓ blocks
    each. - We then show that this ε+ℓqδ bound is basically tight. For the most interesting
    case where ℓqδ ≥ ε we prove this by constructing an f for which an attack with
    advantage ℓqδ exists. This also violates the bound O(ℓε) on the PRF-security of
    NMAC recently claimed by Koblitz and Menezes. - Finally, we analyze the PRF-security
    of a modification of NMAC called NI [An and Bellare, Crypto''99] that differs
    mainly by using a compression function with an additional keying input. This avoids
    the constant rekeying on multi-block messages in NMAC and allows for a security
    proof starting by the standard switch from a PRF to a random function, followed
    by an information-theoretic analysis. We carry out such an analysis, obtaining
    a tight ℓq2/2 c bound for this step, improving over the trivial bound of ℓ2q2/2c.
    The proof borrows combinatorial techniques originally developed for proving the
    security of CBC-MAC [Bellare et al., Crypto''05].'
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- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Peter
  full_name: Gazi, Peter
  id: 3E0BFE38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gazi
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
- first_name: Michal
  full_name: Rybar, Michal
  id: 2B3E3DE8-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Rybar
citation:
  ama: 'Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Rybar M. The exact PRF-security of NMAC and HMAC. In:
    Garay J, Gennaro R, eds. Vol 8616. Springer; 2014:113-130. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7">10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7</a>'
  apa: 'Gazi, P., Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Rybar, M. (2014). The exact PRF-security
    of NMAC and HMAC. In J. Garay &#38; R. Gennaro (Eds.) (Vol. 8616, pp. 113–130).
    Presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, USA:
    Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7</a>'
  chicago: Gazi, Peter, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Michal Rybar. “The Exact PRF-Security
    of NMAC and HMAC.” edited by Juan Garay and Rosario Gennaro, 8616:113–30. Springer,
    2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7</a>.
  ieee: 'P. Gazi, K. Z. Pietrzak, and M. Rybar, “The exact PRF-security of NMAC and
    HMAC,” presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara,
    USA, 2014, vol. 8616, no. 1, pp. 113–130.'
  ista: 'Gazi P, Pietrzak KZ, Rybar M. 2014. The exact PRF-security of NMAC and HMAC.
    CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, LNCS, vol. 8616, 113–130.'
  mla: Gazi, Peter, et al. <i>The Exact PRF-Security of NMAC and HMAC</i>. Edited
    by Juan Garay and Rosario Gennaro, vol. 8616, no. 1, Springer, 2014, pp. 113–30,
    doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7">10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7</a>.
  short: P. Gazi, K.Z. Pietrzak, M. Rybar, in:, J. Garay, R. Gennaro (Eds.), Springer,
    2014, pp. 113–130.
conference:
  end_date: 2014-08-21
  location: Santa Barbara, USA
  name: 'CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference'
  start_date: 2014-08-17
corr_author: '1'
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:55:36Z
date_published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2026-04-08T14:18:39Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '000'
- '004'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_7
ec_funded: 1
editor:
- first_name: Juan
  full_name: Garay, Juan
  last_name: Garay
- first_name: Rosario
  full_name: Gennaro, Rosario
  last_name: Gennaro
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---
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abstract:
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  text: 'We revisit the classical problem of converting an imperfect source of randomness
    into a usable cryptographic key. Assume that we have some cryptographic application
    P that expects a uniformly random m-bit key R and ensures that the best attack
    (in some complexity class) against P(R) has success probability at most δ. Our
    goal is to design a key-derivation function (KDF) h that converts any random source
    X of min-entropy k into a sufficiently &quot;good&quot; key h(X), guaranteeing
    that P(h(X)) has comparable security δ′ which is ''close'' to δ. Seeded randomness
    extractors provide a generic way to solve this problem for all applications P,
    with resulting security δ′ = O(δ), provided that we start with entropy k ≥ m +
    2 log (1/δ) - O(1). By a result of Radhakrishnan and Ta-Shma, this bound on k
    (called the &quot;RT-bound&quot;) is also known to be tight in general. Unfortunately,
    in many situations the loss of 2 log (1/δ) bits of entropy is unacceptable. This
    motivates the study KDFs with less entropy waste by placing some restrictions
    on the source X or the application P. In this work we obtain the following new
    positive and negative results in this regard: - Efficient samplability of the
    source X does not help beat the RT-bound for general applications. This resolves
    the SRT (samplable RT) conjecture of Dachman-Soled et al. [DGKM12] in the affirmative,
    and also shows that the existence of computationally-secure extractors beating
    the RT-bound implies the existence of one-way functions. - We continue in the
    line of work initiated by Barak et al. [BDK+11] and construct new information-theoretic
    KDFs which beat the RT-bound for large but restricted classes of applications.
    Specifically, we design efficient KDFs that work for all unpredictability applications
    P (e.g., signatures, MACs, one-way functions, etc.) and can either: (1) extract
    all of the entropy k = m with a very modest security loss δ′ = O(δ·log (1/δ)),
    or alternatively, (2) achieve essentially optimal security δ′ = O(δ) with a very
    modest entropy loss k ≥ m + loglog (1/δ). In comparison, the best prior results
    from [BDK+11] for this class of applications would only guarantee δ′ = O(√δ) when
    k = m, and would need k ≥ m + log (1/δ) to get δ′ = O(δ). - The weaker bounds
    of [BDK+11] hold for a larger class of so-called &quot;square- friendly&quot;
    applications (which includes all unpredictability, but also some important indistinguishability,
    applications). Unfortunately, we show that these weaker bounds are tight for the
    larger class of applications. - We abstract out a clean, information-theoretic
    notion of (k,δ,δ′)- unpredictability extractors, which guarantee &quot;induced&quot;
    security δ′ for any δ-secure unpredictability application P, and characterize
    the parameters achievable for such unpredictability extractors. Of independent
    interest, we also relate this notion to the previously-known notion of (min-entropy)
    condensers, and improve the state-of-the-art parameters for such condensers.'
alternative_title:
- LNCS
author:
- first_name: Yevgeniy
  full_name: Dodis, Yevgeniy
  last_name: Dodis
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
  orcid: 0000-0002-9139-1654
- first_name: Daniel
  full_name: Wichs, Daniel
  last_name: Wichs
citation:
  ama: 'Dodis Y, Pietrzak KZ, Wichs D. Key derivation without entropy waste. In: Nguyen
    P, Oswald E, eds. Vol 8441. Springer; 2014:93-110. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6">10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6</a>'
  apa: 'Dodis, Y., Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Wichs, D. (2014). Key derivation without
    entropy waste. In P. Nguyen &#38; E. Oswald (Eds.) (Vol. 8441, pp. 93–110). Presented
    at the EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Copenhagen,
    Denmark: Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6</a>'
  chicago: Dodis, Yevgeniy, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Daniel Wichs. “Key Derivation
    without Entropy Waste.” edited by Phong Nguyen and Elisabeth Oswald, 8441:93–110.
    Springer, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6</a>.
  ieee: 'Y. Dodis, K. Z. Pietrzak, and D. Wichs, “Key derivation without entropy waste,”
    presented at the EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques,
    Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014, vol. 8441, pp. 93–110.'
  ista: 'Dodis Y, Pietrzak KZ, Wichs D. 2014. Key derivation without entropy waste.
    EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, LNCS, vol. 8441,
    93–110.'
  mla: Dodis, Yevgeniy, et al. <i>Key Derivation without Entropy Waste</i>. Edited
    by Phong Nguyen and Elisabeth Oswald, vol. 8441, Springer, 2014, pp. 93–110, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6">10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6</a>.
  short: Y. Dodis, K.Z. Pietrzak, D. Wichs, in:, P. Nguyen, E. Oswald (Eds.), Springer,
    2014, pp. 93–110.
conference:
  end_date: 2014-05-15
  location: Copenhagen, Denmark
  name: 'EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques'
  start_date: 2014-05-11
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:56:12Z
date_published: 2014-04-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:55:51Z
day: '01'
ddc:
- '000'
- '004'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_6
editor:
- first_name: Phong
  full_name: Nguyen, Phong
  last_name: Nguyen
- first_name: Elisabeth
  full_name: Oswald, Elisabeth
  last_name: Oswald
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...
---
_id: '1643'
abstract:
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  text: We extend the notion of verifiable random functions (VRF) to constrained VRFs,
    which generalize the concept of constrained pseudorandom functions, put forward
    by Boneh and Waters (Asiacrypt’13), and independently by Kiayias et al. (CCS’13)
    and Boyle et al. (PKC’14), who call them delegatable PRFs and functional PRFs,
    respectively. In a standard VRF the secret key sk allows one to evaluate a pseudorandom
    function at any point of its domain; in addition, it enables computation of a
    non-interactive proof that the function value was computed correctly. In a constrained
    VRF from the key sk one can derive constrained keys skS for subsets S of the domain,
    which allow computation of function values and proofs only at points in S. After
    formally defining constrained VRFs, we derive instantiations from the multilinear-maps-based
    constrained PRFs by Boneh and Waters, yielding a VRF with constrained keys for
    any set that can be decided by a polynomial-size circuit. Our VRFs have the same
    function values as the Boneh-Waters PRFs and are proved secure under the same
    hardness assumption, showing that verifiability comes at no cost. Constrained
    (functional) VRFs were stated as an open problem by Boyle et al.
alternative_title:
- LNCS
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author:
- first_name: Georg
  full_name: Fuchsbauer, Georg
  id: 46B4C3EE-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Fuchsbauer
citation:
  ama: 'Fuchsbauer G. Constrained Verifiable Random Functions . In: Abdalla M, De
    Prisco R, eds. <i>SCN 2014</i>. Vol 8642. Springer; 2014:95-114. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7">10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7</a>'
  apa: 'Fuchsbauer, G. (2014). Constrained Verifiable Random Functions . In M. Abdalla
    &#38; R. De Prisco (Eds.), <i>SCN 2014</i> (Vol. 8642, pp. 95–114). Amalfi, Italy:
    Springer. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7</a>'
  chicago: Fuchsbauer, Georg. “Constrained Verifiable Random Functions .” In <i>SCN
    2014</i>, edited by Michel Abdalla and Roberto De Prisco, 8642:95–114. Springer,
    2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7</a>.
  ieee: G. Fuchsbauer, “Constrained Verifiable Random Functions ,” in <i>SCN 2014</i>,
    Amalfi, Italy, 2014, vol. 8642, pp. 95–114.
  ista: 'Fuchsbauer G. 2014. Constrained Verifiable Random Functions . SCN 2014. SCN:
    Security and Cryptography for Networks, LNCS, vol. 8642, 95–114.'
  mla: Fuchsbauer, Georg. “Constrained Verifiable Random Functions .” <i>SCN 2014</i>,
    edited by Michel Abdalla and Roberto De Prisco, vol. 8642, Springer, 2014, pp.
    95–114, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7">10.1007/978-3-319-10879-7_7</a>.
  short: G. Fuchsbauer, in:, M. Abdalla, R. De Prisco (Eds.), SCN 2014, Springer,
    2014, pp. 95–114.
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  end_date: 2014-09-05
  location: Amalfi, Italy
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  last_name: Abdalla
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  last_name: De Prisco
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abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: 'Most cryptographic security proofs require showing that two systems are indistinguishable.
    A central tool in such proofs is that of a game, where winning the game means
    provoking a certain condition, and it is shown that the two systems considered
    cannot be distinguished unless this condition is provoked. Upper bounding the
    probability of winning such a game, i.e., provoking this condition, for an arbitrary
    strategy is usually hard, except in the special case where the best strategy for
    winning such a game is known to be non-adaptive. A sufficient criterion for ensuring
    the optimality of non-adaptive strategies is that of conditional equivalence to
    a system, a notion introduced in [1]. In this paper, we show that this criterion
    is not necessary to ensure the optimality of non-adaptive strategies by giving
    two results of independent interest: 1) the optimality of non-adaptive strategies
    is not preserved under parallel composition; 2) in contrast, conditional equivalence
    is preserved under parallel composition.'
article_number: '6875125'
author:
- first_name: Grégory
  full_name: Demay, Grégory
  last_name: Demay
- first_name: Peter
  full_name: Gazi, Peter
  id: 3E0BFE38-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Gazi
- first_name: Ueli
  full_name: Maurer, Ueli
  last_name: Maurer
- first_name: Björn
  full_name: Tackmann, Björn
  last_name: Tackmann
citation:
  ama: 'Demay G, Gazi P, Maurer U, Tackmann B. Optimality of non-adaptive strategies:
    The case of parallel games. In: <i>IEEE International Symposium on Information
    Theory</i>. IEEE; 2014. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125">10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125</a>'
  apa: 'Demay, G., Gazi, P., Maurer, U., &#38; Tackmann, B. (2014). Optimality of
    non-adaptive strategies: The case of parallel games. In <i>IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i>. Honolulu, USA: IEEE. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125</a>'
  chicago: 'Demay, Grégory, Peter Gazi, Ueli Maurer, and Björn Tackmann. “Optimality
    of Non-Adaptive Strategies: The Case of Parallel Games.” In <i>IEEE International
    Symposium on Information Theory</i>. IEEE, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125">https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125</a>.'
  ieee: 'G. Demay, P. Gazi, U. Maurer, and B. Tackmann, “Optimality of non-adaptive
    strategies: The case of parallel games,” in <i>IEEE International Symposium on
    Information Theory</i>, Honolulu, USA, 2014.'
  ista: 'Demay G, Gazi P, Maurer U, Tackmann B. 2014. Optimality of non-adaptive strategies:
    The case of parallel games. IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.
    IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings, 6875125.'
  mla: 'Demay, Grégory, et al. “Optimality of Non-Adaptive Strategies: The Case of
    Parallel Games.” <i>IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory</i>, 6875125,
    IEEE, 2014, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125">10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125</a>.'
  short: G. Demay, P. Gazi, U. Maurer, B. Tackmann, in:, IEEE International Symposium
    on Information Theory, IEEE, 2014.
conference:
  end_date: 2014-07-04
  location: Honolulu, USA
  name: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory Proceedings
  start_date: 2014-06-29
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:39Z
date_published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2021-01-12T06:53:59Z
day: '01'
department:
- _id: KrPi
doi: 10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125
fulldoi: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISIT.2014.6875125
language:
- iso: eng
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  url: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/299
month: '01'
oa: 1
oa_version: Submitted Version
publication: IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory
publication_status: published
publisher: IEEE
publist_id: '5188'
quality_controlled: '1'
scopus_import: 1
status: public
title: 'Optimality of non-adaptive strategies: The case of parallel games'
type: conference
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...
---
OA_place: repository
OA_type: green
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abstract:
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  text: Constrained pseudorandom functions have recently been introduced independently
    by Boneh and Waters (Asiacrypt’13), Kiayias et al. (CCS’13), and Boyle et al.
    (PKC’14). In a standard pseudorandom function (PRF) a key k is used to evaluate
    the PRF on all inputs in the domain. Constrained PRFs additionally offer the functionality
    to delegate “constrained” keys kS which allow to evaluate the PRF only on a subset
    S of the domain. The three above-mentioned papers all show that the classical
    GGM construction (J.ACM’86) of a PRF from a pseudorandom generator (PRG) directly
    yields a constrained PRF where one can compute constrained keys to evaluate the
    PRF on all inputs with a given prefix. This constrained PRF has already found
    many interesting applications. Unfortunately, the existing security proofs only
    show selective security (by a reduction to the security of the underlying PRG).
    To achieve full security, one has to use complexity leveraging, which loses an
    exponential factor 2N in security, where N is the input length. The first contribution
    of this paper is a new reduction that only loses a quasipolynomial factor qlog
    N, where q is the number of adversarial queries. For this we develop a new proof
    technique which constructs a distinguisher by interleaving simple guessing steps
    and hybrid arguments a small number of times. This approach might be of interest
    also in other contexts where currently the only technique to achieve full security
    is complexity leveraging. Our second contribution is concerned with another constrained
    PRF, due to Boneh and Waters, which allows for constrained keys for the more general
    class of bit-fixing functions. Their security proof also suffers from a 2N loss,
    which we show is inherent. We construct a meta-reduction which shows that any
    “simple” reduction of full security from a noninteractive hardness assumption
    must incur an exponential security loss.
acknowledgement: "We are grateful to Mihir Bellare for his feedback on earlier versions
  of this paper. We are indebted to Vanishree Rao for her generous assistance in preparing
  this proceedings version.\r\nResearch supported by ERC starting grant (259668-PSPC)."
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- first_name: Momchil
  full_name: Konstantinov, Momchil
  last_name: Konstantinov
- first_name: Krzysztof Z
  full_name: Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z
  id: 3E04A7AA-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87
  last_name: Pietrzak
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  full_name: Rao, Vanishree
  last_name: Rao
citation:
  ama: 'Fuchsbauer G, Konstantinov M, Pietrzak KZ, Rao V. Adaptive security of constrained
    PRFs. In: <i>20th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology
    and Information Security</i>. Vol 8874. Springer Nature; 2014:82-101. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5">10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5</a>'
  apa: 'Fuchsbauer, G., Konstantinov, M., Pietrzak, K. Z., &#38; Rao, V. (2014). Adaptive
    security of constrained PRFs. In <i>20th International Conference on the Theory
    and Application of Cryptology and Information Security</i> (Vol. 8874, pp. 82–101).
    Kaoshiung, Taiwan, China: Springer Nature. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5</a>'
  chicago: Fuchsbauer, Georg, Momchil Konstantinov, Krzysztof Z Pietrzak, and Vanishree
    Rao. “Adaptive Security of Constrained PRFs.” In <i>20th International Conference
    on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security</i>, 8874:82–101.
    Springer Nature, 2014. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5</a>.
  ieee: G. Fuchsbauer, M. Konstantinov, K. Z. Pietrzak, and V. Rao, “Adaptive security
    of constrained PRFs,” in <i>20th International Conference on the Theory and Application
    of Cryptology and Information Security</i>, Kaoshiung, Taiwan, China, 2014, vol.
    8874, pp. 82–101.
  ista: 'Fuchsbauer G, Konstantinov M, Pietrzak KZ, Rao V. 2014. Adaptive security
    of constrained PRFs. 20th International Conference on the Theory and Application
    of Cryptology and Information Security. ASIACRYPT: Conference on the Theory and
    Application of Cryptology and Information Security, LNCS, vol. 8874, 82–101.'
  mla: Fuchsbauer, Georg, et al. “Adaptive Security of Constrained PRFs.” <i>20th
    International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information
    Security</i>, vol. 8874, Springer Nature, 2014, pp. 82–101, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5">10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5</a>.
  short: G. Fuchsbauer, M. Konstantinov, K.Z. Pietrzak, V. Rao, in:, 20th International
    Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security,
    Springer Nature, 2014, pp. 82–101.
conference:
  end_date: 2014-12-11
  location: Kaoshiung, Taiwan, China
  name: 'ASIACRYPT: Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information
    Security'
  start_date: 2014-12-07
date_created: 2018-12-11T11:54:45Z
date_published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00Z
date_updated: 2025-09-23T09:47:44Z
day: '15'
department:
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doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-45608-8_5
ec_funded: 1
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page: 82-101
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  call_identifier: FP7
  grant_number: '259668'
  name: Provable Security for Physical Cryptography
publication: 20th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology
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