Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/053

Breaking One-Round Key-Agreement Protocols in the Random Oracle Model

Miroslava Sotakova

Abstract: In this work we deal with one-round key-agreement protocols, called Merkle's Puzzles, in the random oracle model, where the players Alice and Bob are allowed to query a random permutation oracle $n$ times. We prove that Eve can always break the protocol by querying the oracle $O(n^2)$ times. The long-time unproven optimality of the quadratic bound in the fully general, multi-round scenario has been proven recently by Barak and Mahmoody-Ghidary. The results in this paper have been found independently of their work.

Category / Keywords: public-key cryptography / Merkle's puzzles, key-agreement, random oracle model

Publication Info: arxiv, cs.CC

Date: received 30 Jan 2008

Contact author: mirka at daimi au dk

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Version: 20080131:120227 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2008/053