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Conference Papers Year : 2010

Robust Encryption

Abstract

We provide a provable-security treatment of "robust" encryption. Robustness means it is hard to produce a ciphertext that is valid for two different users. Robustness makes explicit a property that has been implicitly assumed in the past. We argue that it is an essential conjunct of anonymous encryption. We show that natural anonymity-preserving ways to achieve it, such as adding recipient identification information before encrypting, fail. We provide transforms that do achieve it, efficiently and provably. We assess the robustness of specific encryption schemes in the literature, providing simple patches for some that lack the property. We present various applications. Our work enables safer and simpler use of encryption.

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hal-00915836 , version 1 (09-12-2013)

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Michel Abdalla, Mihir Bellare, Gregory Neven. Robust Encryption. TCC 2010, Feb 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. pp.480-497, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-11799-2_28⟩. ⟨hal-00915836⟩
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