[Resource Topic] 2015/091: Related-Key Forgeries for Prøst-OTR

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Title:
Related-Key Forgeries for Prøst-OTR

Authors: Christoph Dobraunig, Maria Eichlseder, Florian Mendel

Abstract:

We present a forgery attack on Prøst-OTR in a related-key setting. Prøst is a family of authenticated encryption algorithms proposed as candidates in the currently ongoing CAESAR competition, and Prøst-OTR is one of the three variants of the Prøst design. The attack exploits how the Prøst permutation is used in an Even-Mansour construction in the Feistel-based OTR mode of operation. Given the ciphertext and tag for any two messages under two related keys K and K + Delta with related nonces, we can forge the ciphertext and tag for a modified message under K. If we can query ciphertexts for chosen messages under K + Delta, we can achieve almost universal forgery for K. The computational complexity is negligible.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/091

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