Paper 2014/518

Cryptography from Compression Functions: The UCE Bridge to the ROM

Mihir Bellare, Viet Tung Hoang, and Sriram Keelveedhi

Abstract

This paper suggests and explores the use of UCE security for the task of turning VIL-ROM schemes into FIL-ROM ones. The benefits we offer over indifferentiability, the current leading method for this task, are the ability to handle multi-stage games and greater efficiency. The paradigm consists of (1) Showing that a VIL UCE function can instantiate the VIL RO in the scheme, and (2) Constructing the VIL UCE function given a FIL random oracle. The main technical contributions of the paper are domain extension transforms that implement the second step. Leveraging known results for the first step we automatically obtain FIL-ROM constructions for several primitives whose security notions are underlain by multi-stage games. Our first domain extender exploits indifferentiability, showing that although the latter does not work directly for multi-stage games it can be used indirectly, through UCE, as a tool for this end. Our second domain extender targets performance. It is parallelizable and shown through implementation to provide significant performance gains over indifferentiable domain extenders.

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Category
Foundations
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Major revision. CRYPTO 2014
Keywords
random-oracle modelindifferentiabilitymulti-stage gamesUCEparallelizable hash
Contact author(s)
vth005 @ eng ucsd edu
History
2014-07-03: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2014/518
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/518,
      author = {Mihir Bellare and Viet Tung Hoang and Sriram Keelveedhi},
      title = {Cryptography from Compression Functions: The UCE Bridge   to the ROM},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2014/518},
      year = {2014},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/518}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/518}
}
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