Paper 2001/035

Forward-Security in Private-Key Cryptography

Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee

Abstract

This paper provides a comprehensive treatment of forward-security in the context of shared-key based cryptographic primitives, as a practical means to mitigate the damage caused by key-exposure. We provide definitions of security, practical proven-secure constructions, and applications for the main primitives in this area. We identify forward-secure pseudorandom bit generators as the central primitive, providing several constructions and then showing how forward-secure message authentication schemes and symmetric encryption schemes can be built based on standard schemes for these problems coupled with forward-secure pseudorandom bit generators. We then apply forward-secure message authentication schemes to the problem of maintaining secure access logs in the presence of break-ins.

Note: Earlier titled ``Design and application of pseudorandom number generators with forward security.'' The first version of this paper dates to 1998.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. An extended abstract of this paper appears in the Proceedings of the CT-RSA 2003 conference. This is the full version.
Keywords
pseudorandom number generatorsforward securityaudit logs
Contact author(s)
mihir @ cs ucsd edu
History
2002-11-18: last of 5 revisions
2001-05-06: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2001/035
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2001/035,
      author = {Mihir Bellare and Bennet Yee},
      title = {Forward-Security in Private-Key Cryptography},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2001/035},
      year = {2001},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/035}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/035}
}
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