Paper 2018/783 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2018/783 ↗
Short Variable Length Domain Extenders With Beyond Birthday Bound Security
Abstract
Length doublers are cryptographic functions that transform an n-bit cryptographic primitive into an efficient and secure cipher that length-preservingly encrypts strings of length in [n,2n-1]. All currently known constructions are only proven secure up to the birthday bound, and for all but one construction this bound is known to be tight. We consider the remaining candidate, LDT by Chen et al.(ToSC 2017(3)), and prove that it achieves beyond the birthday bound security for the domain [n,3n/2). We generalize the construction to multiple rounds and demonstrate that by adding one more encryption layer to LDT, beyond the birthday bound security can be achieved for all strings of length in [n,2n-1]: security up to around 2^{2n/3} for the encryption of strings close to n and security up to around 2^{n} for strings of length close to 2n. The security analysis of both schemes is performed in a modular manner through the introduction and analysis of a new concept called ``harmonic permutation primitives.''
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- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2018-09-01: last updated
- 2018-09-01: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2018/783
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/783,
author = {Yu Long Chen and Bart Mennink and Mridul Nandi},
title = {Short Variable Length Domain Extenders With Beyond Birthday Bound Security},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/783},
year = {2018},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/783}
}