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How to Fool an Unbounded Adversary with a Short Key

Alexander RussellContact Information and Hong WangContact Information

(5)  Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA
Abstract
We consider the symmetric encryption problem which manifests when two parties must securely transmit a message m with a short shared secret key. As we permit arbitrarily powerful adversaries, any encryption scheme must leak information about m - the mutual information between m and its ciphertext cannot be zero. Despite this, we present a family of encryption schemes which guarantee that for any message space in {0,1|n with minimum entropy n - l and for any Boolean function h: {0,1|n → {0,1|, no adversary can predict h(m) from the ciphertext of m with more than 1/n ω(1) advantage; this is achieved with keys of length l+ω)(logn). In general, keys of length l+s yield a bound of 2−θ(s) on the advantage. These encryption schemes rely on no unproven assumptions and can be implemented efficiently.

Contact Information Alexander Russell
Email: acr@engr.uconn.edu

Contact Information Hong Wang
Email: hongmuw@engr.uconn.edu
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  1. Kaplan, Eyal (2008) Derandomized Constructions of k-Wise (Almost) Independent Permutations. Algorithmica
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