# Stronger security bounds for Wegman-Carter-Shoup authenticators

D.J. Bernstein

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## Samenvatting

Shoup proved that various message-authentication codes of the form (n,m) ¿ h(m) + f(n) are secure against all attacks that see at most $\sqrt{1/\epsilon}$1 authenticated messages. Here m is a message; n is a nonce chosen from a public group G; f is a secret uniform random permutation of G; h is a secret random function; and e is a differential probability associated with h. Shoup’s result implies that if AES is secure then various state-of-the-art message-authentication codes of the form (n,m) ¿h(m)¿+¿AES k (n) are secure up to Ö{ 1/e}1 authenticated messages. Unfortunately, Ö{ 1/e}1 is only about 250 for some state-of-the-art systems, so Shoup’s result provides no guarantees for long-term keys. This paper proves that security of the same systems is retained up to Ö{#G}#G authenticated messages. In a typical state-of-the-art system, Ö{#G}#G is 264. The heart of the paper is a very general "one-sided" security theorem: (n,m) ¿ h(m) + f(n) is secure if there are small upper bounds on differential probabilities for h and on interpolation probabilities for f.
Originele taal-2 Engels Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt 2005 (24th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Aarhus, Denmark, May 22-26, 2005, Proceedings) R. Cramer Berlin Springer 164-180 3-540-25910-4 https://doi.org/10.1007/11426639_10 Gepubliceerd - 2005

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Naam Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3494 0302-9743

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