Honey encryption beyond message recovery security

Joseph Jaeger, Thomas Ristenpart, Qiang Tang

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Abstract

Juels and Ristenpart introduced honey encryption (HE) and showed how to achieve message recovery security even in the face of attacks that can exhaustively try all likely keys. This is important in contexts like password-based encryption where keys are very low entropy, and HE schemes based on the JR construction were subsequently proposed for use in password management systems and even long-term protection of genetic data. But message recovery security is in this setting, like previous ones, a relatively weak property, and in particular does not prohibit an attacker from learning partial information about plaintexts or from usefully mauling ciphertexts. We show that one can build HE schemes that can hide partial information about plaintexts and that prevent mauling even in the face of exhaustive brute force attacks. To do so, we introduce target distribution semantic-security and target-distribution non-malleability security notions. We prove that a slight variant of the JR HE construction can meet them. The proofs require new balls-and-bins type analyses significantly different from those used in prior work. Finally, we provide a formal proof of the folklore result that an unbounded adversary which obtains a limited number of encryptions of known plaintexts can always succeed at message recovery.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2016 - 35th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings
EditorsMarc Fischlin, Jean-Sebastien Coron
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages758-788
Number of pages31
ISBN (Print)9783662498897
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event35th Annual International Conference on Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2016 - Vienna, Austria
Duration: May 8 2016May 12 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9665
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other35th Annual International Conference on Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period5/8/165/12/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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