Paper 2022/449
On End-to-End Encryption
Britta Hale and Chelsea Komlo
Abstract
End-to-end encryption (E2EE) is vitally important to security and privacy online, yet currently under-defined. In this note, we map intuitive notions of end-to-end encryption to existing notions of encryption. In particular, we introduce the notion of endness as an notion which end-to-end systems must achieve in addition to traditional security notions associated with encryption, and provide formalizations to capture practical requirements. We demonstrate how the notion of encryption plus endness relates to a variety of case studies that either meet normative security understanding of E2EE or are considered normative failures. Finally, we extend these observations to authentication, and real-world authenticated channel use variants, including authenticated encryption with associated data and message franking.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Foundations
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- End-to-End Encryption (E2EE)End-to-End Authentication (E2EA)authentication with associated data (AEAD)System SecuritySecure Channels
- Contact author(s)
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britta hale @ nps edu
ckomlo @ uwaterloo ca - History
- 2022-04-12: last of 2 revisions
- 2022-04-12: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/449
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/449,
author = {Britta Hale and Chelsea Komlo},
title = {On End-to-End Encryption},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/449},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/449}
}
