[Resource Topic] 2021/1667: Using data compression and randomization to build an unconditionally secure short key cipher

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Title:
Using data compression and randomization to build an unconditionally secure short key cipher

Authors: Boris Ryabko

Abstract:

We consider the problem of constructing an unconditionally secure cipher for the case when the key length is less than the length of the encrypted message. (Unconditional security means that a computationally unbounded adversary cannot obtain information about the encrypted message without the key.) In this article, we propose data compression and randomization techniques combined with entropically-secure encryption. The resulting cipher can be used for encryption in such a way that the key length does not depend on the entropy or the length of the encrypted message; instead, it is determined by the required security level.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1667

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