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CIS 5371 Cryptography

CIS 5371 Cryptography. 3b. Pseudorandomness . B ased on: Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell Introduction to Modern Cryptography. Pseudorandomness An introduction.

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CIS 5371 Cryptography

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  1. CIS 5371 Cryptography 3b. Pseudorandomness. Based on: Jonathan Katz and Yehuda LindellIntroduction to Modern Cryptography

  2. Pseudorandomness An introduction • A distribution D is pseudorandom if no PPT distinguisher can detect if it a string sampled according to D or chosen uniformly at random. • This is formalized by requiring that every PPT algorithm outputs 1 with almost the same probability when given a truly random string as when given a pseudorandom string.

  3. Pseudorandomness An introduction • A pseudorandom generator is a deterministic algorithm that given a short truly random seed of length nwill stretch it to into a longer string of length that is pseudorandom.

  4. Existence of pseudorandom generators • We cannot prove that pseudorandom generators exist! • We believe that such generators can be constructed from one-way functions. • There are some long-standing problems that have no efficient solution and it is believed that they are unsolvable in polynomial time.

  5. Pseudorandom generators informal definition • A distribution D is pseudorandom if no PPT distinguisher can detect if it is given a string sampled according to D or a string chosen uniformly at random. • This can be formalized by requiring that a PPT distinguisher D outputs 1 with almost the same probability when given a truly random string and when given a pseudorandom string.

  6. PseudorandomnessDefinition Let be a polynomial and a deterministic polynomial-time algorithm that on input any will output string of length . is a pseudorandomgenerator if: • ∀ PPT distinguishers D, where is uniform random string of length is uniform random of length and the probabilities are taken over the coins used by and the choices of .

  7. A secure fixed length encryption scheme

  8. A secure fixed length encryption Protocol  • Let be a pseudorandom generator with expansion • factor . Define a private-key encryption scheme • for messages of length as follows • Gen: on input choose  uniformly at • random and output as key. • Enc: on input a key and a message • m output the ciphertext • Dec: on input a key and a ciphertext • c output the plaintext

  9. A secure fixed length encryption Theorem If be a pseudorandom generator then protocol  is a fixed-length private-key encryption scheme that has indistinguishable encryptions in the presence of an eavesdropper.

  10. A secure fixed length encryption Reduction Adversary A’(Distinguisher D) Adversary A (Protocol ) choose a random bit compute Suppose that A succeeds with probability 1 if 0 if

  11. A secure fixed length encryption Proof • Let Pr  . • Then, • when is uniform random we have. • when we have • Pr .

  12. A secure fixed length encryption Proof Therefore when is chosen uniformly in

  13. Variable output length pseudorandom generators A deterministic polynomial-time algorithm is a variable output-length pseudorandom generator if: Let be a string and an integer. Then outputs a string of length . For all with the string is a prefix of . Define . Then for every polynomial it holds that is a pseudorandom generator with expansion factor .

  14. Stream ciphers • We can easily modify the earlier construction for the encryption scheme for variable output length PRG. • In this case,

  15. Discussion • We use the term • stream cipher forthe PR stream generator, • not the encryption algorithm. • There are a number of practical constructions of stream ciphers that are extraordinarily fast, such as the stream cipher RC4.

  16. Discussion • The WEP encryption protocol for 802.11 used RC4 and was broken. • But since then it is fixed---and the standard updated. • If RC4 has to be used the first 1024 bits or so should be discarded.

  17. Discussion • From a security point of view it is advocated to use block cipher constructions for constructing secure encryption schemes. • This disadvantage is that this approach is less efficient when compared to using a dedicated stream cipher.

  18. Multi-message eavesdropping experiment  • .

  19. Definition A private-key encryption scheme =(Gen,Enc,Dec) that has indistinguishable multiple encryptions in the presence of an eavesdropper satisfies: :  where the probability is taken over the random coins of , and the experiment.

  20. Indistinguishable single encryptions vs indistinguishable multi encryptions • The secure fixed length encryption Protocol presented earlier is deterministic and cannot be used as a construction for a indistinguishable multi encryptions. • To see why, we use the experiment for the pair of vector messages and

  21. Secure multiple encryptions using a stream cipher • Synchronized mode • Communicating parties use a different part of the stream cipher output to encrypt a message. • Useful for parties communicating in the same session. • Communicating parties must maintain state between encryptions.

  22. Secure multiple encryptions using a stream cipher Unsynchronized mode • Encryptions are carried out independently of one another. • Communicating parties are not required to maintain state between encryptions. where the initial vector is chosen at random.

  23. Security against Chosen-Plaintext Attack (CPA) • We now consider a more powerful adversary that is active. • The adversary can ask for the encryptions of some specific plaintext messages, as well as eavesdrop.

  24. The CPA indistinguishability experiment  • . .

  25. Indistinguishable encryptions under CPADefinition A private-key encryption scheme has indistinguishable encryptions under CPA if  where the probability is taken over the coins of A and those of the experiment.

  26. CPA security for multiple encryptions • As for single encryption, extend the experiment to in which the adversary outputs a pair of vectors of plaintext. • Any private-key encryption scheme that has indistinguishable encryptions under CPA also has indistinguishable multiple encryptions under CPA

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