Ciphers with Arbitrary Finite Domains

John Black; Phillip Rogaway

Paper 2001/012

Ciphers with Arbitrary Finite Domains

John Black and Phillip Rogaway

Abstract

We introduce the problem of enciphering members of a finite set $M$ where $k=|M|$ is arbitrary (in particular, it need not be a power of two). We want to achieve this goal starting from a block cipher (which requires a message space of size $N=2^n$, for some $n$). We look at a few solutions to this problem, focusing on the case when $M=[0, k-1]$.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF PS
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: Ciphers Modes of Operation Provable security Symmetric Encryption
Contact author(s): jrb @ unr edu
History: 2001-02-17: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2001/012
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2001/012,
      author = {John Black and Phillip Rogaway},
      title = {Ciphers with Arbitrary Finite Domains},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2001/012},
      year = {2001},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2001/012}
}