Paper 2010/505

Termination-Insensitive Computational Indistinguishability (and applications to computational soundness)

Dominique Unruh

Abstract

We defined a new notion of computational indistinguishability: termination-insensitive computational indistinguishability (tic-indistinguishability). Tic-indistinguishability models indistinguishability with respect to distinguishers that cannot distinguish between termination and non-termination. We sketch how the new notion allows to get computational soundness results of symbolic models for equivalence-based security properties (such as anonymity) for processes that contain loops, solving an open problem.

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Foundations
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Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
computational indistinguishabilitynon-terminationcomputational soundness
Contact author(s)
unruh @ mmci uni-saarland de
History
2010-10-05: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2010/505
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/505,
      author = {Dominique Unruh},
      title = {Termination-Insensitive Computational Indistinguishability (and applications to computational soundness)},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2010/505},
      year = {2010},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/505}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/505}
}
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