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Title:
A Note on the Security Framework of Two-key DbHtS MACs
Authors: Tingting Guo, Peng Wang
Abstract:Double-block Hash-then-Sum (DbHtS) MACs are a class of MACs achieve beyond-birthday-bound (BBB) security, including SUM-ECBC, PMAC_Plus, 3kf9 and LightMAC_Plus etc. Recently, Shen et al. (Crypto 2021) proposed a security framework for two-key DbHtS MACs in the multi-user setting, stating that when the underlying blockcipher is ideal and the universal hash function is regular and almost universal, the two-key DbHtS MACs achieve 2n/3-bit security. Unfortunately, the regular and universal properties can not guarantee the BBB security of two-key DbHtS MACs. We propose three counter-examples which are proved to be 2n/3-bit secure in the multi-user setting by the framework, but can be broken with probability 1 using only O(2^{n/2}) queries even in the single-user setting. We also point out the miscalculation in their proof leading to such a flaw. However, we haven’t found attacks against 2k-SUM-ECBC, 2k-PMAC_Plus and 2k-LightMAC_Plus proved 2n/3-bit security in their paper.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/375
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