[Resource Topic] 2015/324: A Note on Lower Bounds for Non-interactive Message Authentication Using Weak Keys

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Title:
A Note on Lower Bounds for Non-interactive Message Authentication Using Weak Keys

Authors: Divesh Aggarwal, Alexander Golovnev

Abstract:

In this note, we prove lower bounds on the amount of entropy of random sources necessary for secure message authentication. We consider the problem of non-interactive c-time message authentication using a weak secret key having min-entropy k. We show that existing constructions using (c+1)-wise independent hash functions are optimal. This result resolves one of the main questions left open by the work of Dodis and Spencer [DS02] who considered this problem for one-time message authentication of one-bit messages.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/324

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