Paper 2015/189
Online Authenticated-Encryption and its Nonce-Reuse Misuse-Resistance
Viet Tung Hoang, Reza Reyhanitabar, Phillip Rogaway, and Damian Vizár
Abstract
A definition of \textit{online authenticated-encryption} (OAE), call it OAE1, was given by Fleischmann, Forler, and Lucks (2012). It has become a popular definitional target because, despite allowing encryption to be online, security is supposed to be maintained even if nonces get reused. We argue that this expectation is effectively wrong. OAE1 security has also been claimed to capture best-possible security for any online-AE scheme. We claim that this understanding is wrong, too. So motivated, we redefine OAE-security, providing a radically different formulation, OAE2. The new notion effectively \textit{does} capture best-possible security for a user's choice of plaintext segmentation and ciphertext expansion. It is achievable by simple techniques from standard tools. Yet even for OAE2, nonce-reuse can still be devastating. The picture to emerge is that no OAE definition can meaningfully tolerate nonce-reuse, but, at the same time, OAE security ought neverhave been understood to turn on this question.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Secret-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- Authenticated encryptionCAESAR competitionmisuse resistancenonce reuseonline AEsymmetric encryption
- Contact author(s)
- tvhoang @ cs fsu edu
- History
- 2018-11-29: last of 6 revisions
- 2015-03-04: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/189
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/189,
author = {Viet Tung Hoang and Reza Reyhanitabar and Phillip Rogaway and Damian Vizár},
title = {Online Authenticated-Encryption and its Nonce-Reuse Misuse-Resistance},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/189},
year = {2015},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/189}
}
