Paper 2011/204

Leakage Tolerant Interactive Protocols

Nir Bitansky, Ran Canetti, and Shai Halevi

Abstract

We put forth a framework for expressing security requirements from interactive protocols in the presence of arbitrary leakage. This allows capturing different levels of leakage tolerance of protocols, namely the preservation (or degradation) of security, under coordinated attacks that include various forms of leakage from the secret states of participating components. The framework extends the universally composable (UC) security framework. We also prove a variant of the UC theorem, that enables modular design and analysis of protocols even in face of general, non-modular leakage. We then construct leakage tolerant protocols for basic tasks, such as, secure message transmission, message authentication, commitment, oblivious transfer and zero knowledge. A central component in several of our constructions is the observation that resilience to adaptive party corruptions (in some strong sense) implies leakage-tolerance in an essentially optimal way.

Metadata
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PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
universal-compositionleakage-resilient-cryptography
Contact author(s)
nirbitan @ tau ac il
History
2011-04-28: revised
2011-04-25: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2011/204
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/204,
      author = {Nir Bitansky and Ran Canetti and Shai Halevi},
      title = {Leakage Tolerant Interactive Protocols},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/204},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/204}
}
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