Paper 2004/301
VMPC-MAC: A Stream Cipher Based Authenticated Encryption Scheme
Bartosz Zoltak
Abstract
A stream cipher based algorithm for computing Message Authentication Codes is described. The algorithm employs the internal state of the underlying cipher to minimize the required additional-to-encryption computational effort and maintain general simplicity of the design. The scheme appears to provide proper statistical properties, a comfortable level of resistance against forgery attacks in a chosen ciphertext attack model and high efficiency in software implementations.
Note: VMPC-MAC is a successor to the Tail-MAC scheme, which was broken with complexity 2^32. Tail-MAC's description with an outline of two strong attacks can be found at ePrint as report 2004/048. The VMPC-MAC scheme solves all the security problems found in the Tail-MAC and employs a different approach - it is a cipher-specific, dedicated to the VMPC Stream Cipher, rather than a general scheme.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
PS
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Outlined at FSE 2004 Rump Session, Delhi, India, 5-7 Feb. 2004; outlined at national Polish-language, no-proceedings cryptology conference Enigma 2004, Warsaw, 11-13 May 2004
- Keywords
- Authenticated EncryptionMACStream CipherVMPC
- Contact author(s)
- bzoltak @ vmpcfunction com
- History
- 2004-11-19: revised
- 2004-11-14: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2004/301
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/301,
author = {Bartosz Zoltak},
title = {VMPC-MAC: A Stream Cipher Based Authenticated Encryption Scheme},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2004/301},
year = {2004},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/301}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/301}
}
