Paper 2018/455

On Renyi Entropies and their Applications to Guessing Attacks in Cryptography

Serdar Boztas

Abstract

We consider single and multiple attacker scenarios in guessing and obtain bounds on various success parameters in terms of Renyi entropies. We also obtain a new derivation of the union bound.

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Foundations
Publication info
Published elsewhere. IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals, 97-A(12):2014
Keywords
brute force guessing attackspredictabilityentropy
Contact author(s)
serdar boztas @ rmit edu au
History
2018-05-21: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2018/455
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/455,
      author = {Serdar Boztas},
      title = {On Renyi Entropies and their Applications to Guessing Attacks in  Cryptography},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2018/455},
      year = {2018},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/455}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/455}
}
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