Paper 2007/074 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2007/074 ↗

A Cramer-Shoup Encryption Scheme from the Linear Assumption and from Progressively Weaker Linear Variants

Hovav Shacham
Abstract

We describe a CCA-secure public-key encryption scheme, in the Cramer-Shoup paradigm, based on the Linear assumption of Boneh, Boyen, and Shacham. Through a comparison to the Kiltz tag-encryption scheme from TCC 2006, our scheme gives evidence that the Cramer-Shoup paradigm yields CCA encryption with shorter ciphertexts than the Canetti-Halevi-Katz paradigm. We present a generalization of the Linear assumption into a family of progressively weaker assumptions and show how to instantiate our Linear Cramer-Shoup encryption using the progressively weaker members of this family.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2009-04-23: last updated
2007-02-28: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/074
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/074,
      author = {Hovav Shacham},
      title = {A Cramer-Shoup Encryption Scheme from the Linear Assumption and from Progressively Weaker Linear Variants},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/074},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/074}
}
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