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Title:
Tight Characterizations for Preprocessing against Cryptographic Salting
Authors: Fangqi Dong, Qipeng Liu, Kewen Wu
Abstract:Cryptography often considers the strongest yet plausible attacks in the real world. Preprocessing (a.k.a. non-uniform attack) plays an important role in both theory and practice: an efficient online attacker can take advantage of advice prepared by a time-consuming preprocessing stage.
Salting is a heuristic strategy to counter preprocessing attacks by feeding a small amount of randomness to the cryptographic primitive.
We present general and tight characterizations of preprocessing against cryptographic salting, with upper bounds matching the advantages of the most intuitive attack.
Our result quantitatively strengthens the previous work by Coretti, Dodis, Guo, and Steinberger (EUROCRYPT’18).
Our proof exploits a novel connection between the non-uniform security of salted games and direct product theorems for memoryless algorithms.
For quantum adversaries, we give similar characterizations for property finding games, resolving an open problem of the quantum non-uniform security of salted collision resistant hash by Chung, Guo, Liu, and Qian (FOCS’20).
Our proof extends the compressed oracle framework of Zhandry (CRYPTO’19) to prove quantum strong direct product theorems for property finding games in the average-case hardness.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/831
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