GNUC: A New Universal Composability Framework

Dennis Hofheinz; Victor Shoup

Paper 2011/303

GNUC: A New Universal Composability Framework

Dennis Hofheinz and Victor Shoup

Abstract

We put forward a framework for the modular design and analysis of multi-party protocols. Our framework is called ``GNUC'' (with the recursive meaning ``GNUC's Not UC''), already alluding to the similarity to Canetti's Universal Composability (UC) framework. In particular, like UC, we offer a universal composition theorem, as well as a theorem for composing protocols with joint state. We deviate from UC in several important aspects. Specifically, we have a rather different view than UC on the structuring of protocols, on the notion of polynomial-time protocols and attacks, and on corruptions. We will motivate our definitional choices by explaining why the definitions in the UC framework are problematic, and how we overcome these problems. Our goal is to make offer a framework that is largely compatible with UC, such that previous results formulated in UC carry over to GNUC with minimal changes. We exemplify this by giving explicit formulations for several important protocol tasks, including authenticated and secure communication, as well as commitment and secure function evaluation.

Note: Update (Dec 11): improved exposition, improved modeling of static corruptions, no other definitional changes.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: protocols composability
Contact author(s): shoup @ cs nyu edu
History: 2012-12-11: revised; 2011-06-08: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2011/303
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/303,
      author = {Dennis Hofheinz and Victor Shoup},
      title = {{GNUC}: A New Universal Composability Framework},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/303},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/303}
}