[Resource Topic] 2018/237: On Tightly Secure Non-Interactive Key Exchange

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Title:
On Tightly Secure Non-Interactive Key Exchange

Authors: Julia Hesse, Dennis Hofheinz, Lisa Kohl

Abstract:

We consider the reduction loss of security reductions for non-interactive key exchange (NIKE) schemes. Currently, no tightly secure NIKE schemes exist, and in fact Bader et al. (EUROCRYPT 2016) provide a lower bound (of O(n^2), where n is the number of parties an adversary interacts with) on the reduction loss for a large class of NIKE schemes. We offer two results: the first NIKE scheme with a reduction loss of n/2 that circumvents the lower bound of Bader et al., but is of course still far from tightly secure. Second, we provide a generalization of Bader et al.'s lower bound to a larger class of NIKE schemes (that also covers our NIKE scheme), with an adapted lower bound of n/2 on the reduction loss. Hence, in that sense, the reduction for our NIKE scheme is optimal.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/237

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo7z2m66hW8

Slides: https://crypto.iacr.org/2018/slides/On%20Tightly%20Secure%20Non-Interactive%20Key%20Exchange.pdf

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