Paper 2006/275

A New Mode of Encryption Providing A Tweakable Strong Pseudo-Random

Debrup Chakraborty and Palash Sarkar

Abstract

We present PEP, which is a new construction of a tweakable strong pseudo-random permutation. PEP uses a hash-encrypt-hash approach which has recently been used in the construction of HCTR. This approach is different from the encrypt-mask-encrypt approach of constructions such as CMC, EME and EME$^*$. The general hash-encrypt-hash approach was earlier used by Naor-Reingold to provide a generic construction technique for an SPRP (but not a tweakable SPRP). PEP can be seen as the development of the Naor-Reingold approach into a fully specified mode of operation with a concrete security reduction for a tweakable strong pseudo-random permutation. The security bound of HCTR which is also based on the Naor-Reingold approach is weaker than that of PEP. Compared to previous known constructions, PEP is the only construction of tweakable SPRP which uses a single key, is efficiently parallelizable and can handle an arbitrary number of blocks.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF PS
Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. A short version of this paper apperas in the proceedings of FSE 2006, LNCS 4047
Keywords
mode of operationtweakable encryptionstrong pseudo-random permutation
Contact author(s)
debrup @ delta cs cinvestav mx
History
2006-08-17: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2006/275
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/275,
      author = {Debrup Chakraborty and Palash Sarkar},
      title = {A New Mode of Encryption Providing A Tweakable Strong Pseudo-Random},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/275},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/275}
}
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