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Title:
On the Notion of Statistical Security in Simulatability Definitions
Authors: Dennis Hofheinz, Dominique Unruh
Abstract:We investigate the definition of statistical security (i.e.,
security against unbounded adversaries) in the framework of reactive
simulatability. This framework allows to formulate and analyze
multi-party protocols modularly by providing a composition theorem
for protocols. However, we show that the notion of statistical
security, as defined by Backes, Pfitzmann and Waidner for the
reactive simulatability framework, does not allow for secure
composition of protocols. This in particular invalidates the proof
of the composition theorem.
We give evidence that the reason for the non-composability of
statistical security is no artifact of the framework itself, but of
the particular formulation of statistical security. Therefore, we
give a modified notion of statistical security in the reactive
simulatability framework. We prove that this notion allows for
secure composition of protocols.
As to the best of our knowledge, no formal definition of statistical
security has been fixed for Canetti’s universal composability
framework, we believe that our observations and results can also
help to avoid potential pitfalls there.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/032
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