### FAST: Disk Encryption and Beyond

Debrup Chakraborty, Sebati Ghosh, Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez, and Palash Sarkar

##### Abstract

This work introduces \sym{FAST} which is a new family of tweakable enciphering schemes. Several instantiations of \sym{FAST} are described. These are targeted towards two goals, the specific task of disk encryption and a more general scheme suitable for a wide variety of practical applications. A major contribution of this work is to present detailed and careful software implementations of all of these instantiations. For disk encryption, the results from the implementations show that \sym{FAST} compares very favourably to the IEEE disk encryption standards XCB and EME2 as well as the more recent proposal AEZ. \sym{FAST} is built using a fixed input length pseudo-random function and an appropriate hash function. It uses a single-block key, is parallelisable and can be instantiated using only the encryption function of a block cipher. The hash function can be instantiated using either the Horner's rule based usual polynomial hashing or hashing based on the more efficient Bernstein-Rabin-Winograd polynomials. Security of \sym{FAST} has been rigorously analysed using the standard provable security approach and concrete security bounds have been derived. Based on our implementation results, we put forward \sym{FAST} as a serious candidate for standardisation and deployment.

Note: Added detailed comparison to AEZ instantiated with the full AES.

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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. Minor revision.
Keywords
disk encryptiontweakable enciphering schemespseudo-random functionHornerBRW
Contact author(s)
debrup @ isical ac in
sebati_r @ isical ac in
palash @ isical ac in
cuauhtemoc mancillas83 @ gmail com
sebati1987 @ gmail com
History
2019-12-13: last of 3 revisions
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/849

CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/849,
author = {Debrup Chakraborty and Sebati Ghosh and Cuauhtemoc Mancillas Lopez and Palash Sarkar},
title = {FAST: Disk Encryption and Beyond},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/849},
year = {2017},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/849}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/849}
}

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