Paper 2012/292 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/292 ↗

An Adaptive-Ciphertext Attack against "I $\oplus$ C'' Block Cipher Modes With an Oracle

Jon Passki
Tom Ritter
Abstract

Certain block cipher confidentiality modes are susceptible to an adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack against the underlying format of the plaintext. When the application decrypts altered ciphertext and attempts to process the manipulated plaintext, it may disclose information about intermediate values resulting in an oracle. In this paper we describe how to recognize and exploit such an oracle to decrypt ciphertext and control the decryption to result in arbitrary plaintext. We also discuss ways to mitigate and remedy the issue.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2012-07-02: last updated
2012-05-29: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/292
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/292,
      author = {Jon Passki and Tom Ritter},
      title = {An Adaptive-Ciphertext Attack against "I $\oplus$ C'' Block Cipher Modes With an Oracle},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/292},
      year = {2012},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/292}
}
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