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Paper 2015/027

On the Regularity of Lossy RSA: Improved Bounds and Applications to Padding-Based Encryption

Adam Smith and Ye Zhang

Abstract

We provide new bounds on how close to regular the map x |--> x^e is on arithmetic progressions in Z_N, assuming e | Phi(N) and N is composite. We use these bounds to analyze the security of natural cryptographic problems related to RSA, based on the well-studied Phi-Hiding assumption. For example, under this assumption, we show that RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 is secure against chosen-plaintext attacks for messages of length roughly (log N)/4 bits, whereas the previous analysis, due to Lewko et al (2013), applies only to messages of length less than (log N)/32. In addition to providing new bounds, we also show that a key lemma of Lewko et al. is incorrect. We prove a weaker version of the claim which is nonetheless sufficient for most, though not all, of their applications. Our technical results can be viewed as showing that exponentiation in Z_N is a deterministic extractor for every source that is uniform on an arithmetic progression. Previous work showed this type of statement only on average over a large class of sources, or for much longer progressions (that is, sources with much more entropy).

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published by the IACR in TCC 2015
Keywords
PKCSPhi-HidingRegularity
Contact author(s)
yxz169 @ cse psu edu
History
2015-01-14: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/027
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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