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Best Effort and Practice Activation Codes
Activation Codes are used in many different digital services and known by
many different names including voucher, e-coupon and discount code. In this
paper we focus on a specific class of ACs that are short, human-readable,
fixed-length and represent value. Even though this class of codes is
extensively used there are no general guidelines for the design of Activation
Code schemes. We discuss different methods that are used in practice and
propose BEPAC, a new Activation Code scheme that provides both authenticity and
confidentiality. The small message space of activation codes introduces some
problems that are illustrated by an adaptive chosen-plaintext attack (CPA-2) on
a general 3-round Feis- tel network of size 2^(2n) . This attack recovers the
complete permutation from at most 2^(n+2) plaintext-ciphertext pairs. For this
reason, BEPAC is designed in such a way that authenticity and confidentiality
are in- dependent properties, i.e. loss of confidentiality does not imply loss
of authenticity.Comment: 15 pages, 3 figures, TrustBus 201
KLEIN: A New Family of Lightweight Block Ciphers
Resource-efficient cryptographic primitives become fundamental for realizing both security and efficiency in embedded systems like RFID tags and sensor nodes. Among those primitives, lightweight block cipher plays a major role as a building block for security protocols. In this paper, we describe a new family of lightweight block ciphers named KLEIN, which is designed for resource-constrained devices such as wireless sensors and RFID tags. Compared to the related proposals, KLEIN has advantage in the software performance on legacy sensor platforms, while in the same time its hardware implementation can also be compact
Multiply Constant-Weight Codes and the Reliability of Loop Physically Unclonable Functions
We introduce the class of multiply constant-weight codes to improve the
reliability of certain physically unclonable function (PUF) response. We extend
classical coding methods to construct multiply constant-weight codes from known
-ary and constant-weight codes. Analogues of Johnson bounds are derived and
are shown to be asymptotically tight to a constant factor under certain
conditions. We also examine the rates of the multiply constant-weight codes and
interestingly, demonstrate that these rates are the same as those of
constant-weight codes of suitable parameters. Asymptotic analysis of our code
constructions is provided
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