[Resource Topic] 2020/1213: Expected-Time Cryptography: Generic Techniques and Applications to Concrete Soundness

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Title:
Expected-Time Cryptography: Generic Techniques and Applications to Concrete Soundness

Authors: Joseph Jaeger, Stefano Tessaro

Abstract:

This paper studies concrete security with respect to expected-time adversaries. Our first contribution is a set of generic tools to obtain tight bounds on the advantage of an adversary with expected-time guarantees. We apply these tools to derive bounds in the random-oracle and generic-group models, which we show to be tight. As our second contribution, we use these results to derive concrete bounds on the soundness of public-coin proofs and arguments of knowledge. Under the lens of concrete security, we revisit a paradigm by Bootle at al. (EUROCRYPT '16) that proposes a general Forking Lemma for multi-round protocols which implements a rewinding strategy with expected-time guarantees. We give a tighter analysis, as well as a modular statement. We adopt this to obtain the first quantitative bounds on the soundness of Bulletproofs (Bünz et al., S&P 2018), which we instantiate with our expected-time generic-group analysis to surface inherent dependence between the concrete security and the statement to be proved.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1213

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0bmOLkhMVg

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