[Resource Topic] 2018/181: Rasta: A cipher with low ANDdepth and few ANDs per bit

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Title:
Rasta: A cipher with low ANDdepth and few ANDs per bit

Authors: Christoph Dobraunig, Maria Eichlseder, Lorenzo Grassi, Virginie Lallemand, Gregor Leander, Eik List, Florian Mendel, Christian Rechberger

Abstract:

Recent developments in multi party computation (MPC) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) promoted the design and analysis of symmetric cryptographic schemes that minimize multiplications in one way or another. In this paper, we propose with Rasta a design strategy for symmetric encryption that has ANDdepth d and at the same time only needs d ANDs per encrypted bit. Even for very low values of d between 2 and 6 we can give strong evidence that attacks may not exist. This contributes to a better understanding of the limits of what concrete symmetric-key constructions can theoretically achieve with respect to AND-related metrics, and is to the best of our knowledge the first attempt that minimizes both metrics simultaneously. Furthermore, we can give evidence that for choices of d between 4 and 6 the resulting implementation properties may well be competitive by testing our construction in the use-case of removing the large ciphertext-expansion when using the BGV scheme.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/181

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L8a3BCAWAE

Slides: https://crypto.iacr.org/2018/slides/Rasta%20A%20cipher%20with%20low%20ANDdepth%20and%20few%20ANDs%20per%20bit.pdf

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