Authenticated Key Distribution: When the Coupon Collector is Your Enemy

Marc Beunardeau; Fatima-Ezzahra El Orche; Diana Maimut; David Naccache; Peter B.  Roenne; Peter Y. A.  Ryan

Paper 2019/1499

Authenticated Key Distribution: When the Coupon Collector is Your Enemy

Marc Beunardeau, Fatima-Ezzahra El Orche, Diana Maimut, David Naccache, Peter B. Roenne, and Peter Y. A. Ryan

Abstract

We introduce new authenticated key exchange protocols which on one hand do not resort to standard public key setups with corresponding assumptions of computationally hard problems, but on the other hand are more efficient than distributing symmetric keys among the participants. To this end, we rely on a trusted central authority distributing key material which size is independent of the total number of users, and which allows the users to obtain shared secret keys. We analyze the security of our construction taking into account various attack models. Importantly, only symmetric primitives are needed in the protocol making it an alternative to quantum-safe key exchange protocols which rely on hardness assumptions.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Minor revision. SECITC 2019
Keywords: Symmetric cryptography key exchange protocol authentication provable security post-quantum cryptography.
Contact author(s): maimut diana @ gmail com
History: 2020-01-07: revised; 2020-01-02: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2019/1499
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/1499,
      author = {Marc Beunardeau and Fatima-Ezzahra El Orche and Diana Maimut and David Naccache and Peter B.  Roenne and Peter Y. A.  Ryan},
      title = {Authenticated Key Distribution: When the Coupon Collector is Your Enemy},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2019/1499},
      year = {2019},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1499}
}