[Resource Topic] 2021/221: The Direction of Updatable Encryption Does Matter

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Title:
The Direction of Updatable Encryption Does Matter

Authors: Ryo Nishimaki

Abstract:

We introduce a new definition for key updates, called backward-leak uni-directional key updates, in updatable encryption (UE). This notion is a variant of uni-directional key updates for UE. We show that existing secure UE schemes in the bi-directional key updates setting are not secure in the backward-leak uni-directional key updates setting. Thus, security in the backward-leak uni-directional key updates setting is strictly stronger than security in the bi-directional key updates setting. This result is in sharp contrast to the equivalence theorem by Jiang (Asiacrypt 2020), which says security in the bi-directional key updates setting is equivalent to security in the existing uni-directional key updates setting. We call the existing uni-directional key updates ``forward-leak uni-directional’’ key updates to distinguish two types of uni-directional key updates in this paper. We also present two UE schemes with the following features. - The first scheme is post-quantum secure in the backward-leak uni-directional key updates setting under the learning with errors assumption. - The second scheme is secure in the no-directional key updates setting and based on indistinguishability obfuscation and one-way functions. This result solves the open problem left by Jiang (Asiacrypt 2020).

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/221

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

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