Paper 2015/1088 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2015/1088 ↗

Note on the RKA security of Continuously Non-Malleable Key-Derivation Function from PKC 2015

Eiichiro Fujisaki
Keita Xagawa
Abstract

Qin, Liu, Yuen, Deng, and Chen (PKC 2015) gave a new security notion of key-derivation function (KDF), continuous non-malleability with respect to $\Phi$-related-key attacks ($\Phi$-CNM), and its application to RKA-secure public-key cryptographic primitives. They constructed a KDF from cryptographic primitives and showed that the obtained KDF is $\Phi_{hoe\&iocr}$-CNM, where $\Phi_{hoe\&iocr}$ contains the identity function, the constant functions, and functions that have high output-entropy (HOE) and input-output collision-resistance (IOCR) simultaneously. This short note disproves the security of their KDF by giving $\Phi_{hoe\&iocr}$-RKAs by exploiting the components of their KDF. We note that their proof is still correct for $\Phi$-CNM for a subset of $\Phi_{hoe\&iocr}$; for example the KDF satisfies $\Phi_{poly(d)}$-CNM, in which an adversary can tamper with a secret by using polynomials of degree at most $d$.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2015-12-24: last updated
2015-11-09: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/1088
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/1088,
      author = {Eiichiro Fujisaki and Keita Xagawa},
      title = {Note on the RKA security of Continuously Non-Malleable Key-Derivation Function  from PKC 2015},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/1088},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1088}
}
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