Post-Quantum Key Exchange Protocols

If an eavesdropper Eve is equipped with quantum computers, she can easily break the public key exchange protocols used today. In this paper we will discuss the post-quantum Diffie-Hellman key exchange and private key exchange protocols.Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to SPIE DSS 2006; v2 citation typos fixed; v3 appendix typos correcte

Bit Security of the Hyperelliptic Curves Diffie-Hellman Problem

The Diffie-Hellman problem as a cryptographic primitive plays an important role in modern cryptology. The Bit Security or Hard-Core Bits of Diffie-Hellman problem in arbitrary finite cyclic group is a long-standing open problem in cryptography. Until now, only few groups have been studied. Hyperelliptic curve cryptography is an alternative to elliptic curve cryptography. Due to the recent cryptanalytic results that the best known algorithms to attack hyperelliptic curve cryptosystems of genus $g<3$ are the generic methods and the recent implementation results that hyperelliptic curve cryptography in genus 2 has the potential to be competitive with its elliptic curve cryptography counterpart. In this paper, we generalize Boneh and Shparlinksi\u27s method and result about elliptic curve to the case of Jacobians of hyperelliptic curves. We prove that the least significant bit of each coordinate of hyperelliptic curves Diffie-Hellman secret value in genus 2 is hard as the entire Diffie-Hellman value, and then we also show that any bit is hard as the entire Diffie-Hellman value. Finally, we extend our techniques and results to hyperelliptic curves of any genus

Finding Significant Fourier Coefficients: Clarifications, Simplifications, Applications and Limitations

Ideas from Fourier analysis have been used in cryptography for the last three decades. Akavia, Goldwasser and Safra unified some of these ideas to give a complete algorithm that finds significant Fourier coefficients of functions on any finite abelian group. Their algorithm stimulated a lot of interest in the cryptography community, especially in the context of `bit security'. This manuscript attempts to be a friendly and comprehensive guide to the tools and results in this field. The intended readership is cryptographers who have heard about these tools and seek an understanding of their mechanics and their usefulness and limitations. A compact overview of the algorithm is presented with emphasis on the ideas behind it. We show how these ideas can be extended to a `modulus-switching' variant of the algorithm. We survey some applications of this algorithm, and explain that several results should be taken in the right context. In particular, we point out that some of the most important bit security problems are still open. Our original contributions include: a discussion of the limitations on the usefulness of these tools; an answer to an open question about the modular inversion hidden number problem

Hard-Core Predicates for a Diffie-Hellman Problem over Finite Fields

A long-standing open problem in cryptography is proving the existence of (deterministic) hard-core predicates for the Diffie-Hellman problem defined over finite fields. In this paper, we make progress on this problem by defining a very natural variation of the Diffie-Hellman problem over $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$ and proving the unpredictability of every single bit of one of the coordinates of the secret DH value. To achieve our result, we modify an idea presented at CRYPTO\u2701 by Boneh and Shparlinski [4] originally developed to prove that the LSB of the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman problem is hard. We extend this idea in two novel ways: 1. We generalize it to the case of finite fields $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$; 2. We prove that any bit, not just the LSB, is hard using the list decoding techniques of Akavia et al. [1] (FOCS\u2703) as generalized at CRYPTO\u2712 by Duc and Jetchev [6]. In the process, we prove several other interesting results: - Our result also hold for a larger class of predicates, called \emph{segment predicates} in [1]; - We extend the result of Boneh and Shparlinski to prove that every bit (and every segment predicate) of the elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman problem is hard-core; - We define the notion of \emph{partial one-way function} over finite fields $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$ and prove that every bit (and every segment predicate) of one of the input coordinates for these functions is hard-core

Authenticated public key elliptic curve based on deep convolutional neural network for cybersecurity image encryption application

The demand for cybersecurity is growing to safeguard information flow and enhance data privacy. This essay suggests a novel authenticated public key elliptic curve based on a deep convolutional neural network (APK-EC-DCNN) for cybersecurity image encryption application. The public key elliptic curve discrete logarithmic problem (EC-DLP) is used for elliptic curve Diffie–Hellman key exchange (EC-DHKE) in order to generate a shared session key, which is used as the chaotic system’s beginning conditions and control parameters. In addition, the authenticity and confidentiality can be archived based on ECC to share the (Formula presented.) parameters between two parties by using the EC-DHKE algorithm. Moreover, the 3D Quantum Chaotic Logistic Map (3D QCLM) has an extremely chaotic behavior of the bifurcation diagram and high Lyapunov exponent, which can be used in high-level security. In addition, in order to achieve the authentication property, the secure hash function uses the output sequence of the DCNN and the output sequence of the 3D QCLM in the proposed authenticated expansion diffusion matrix (AEDM). Finally, partial frequency domain encryption (PFDE) technique is achieved by using the discrete wavelet transform in order to satisfy the robustness and fast encryption process. Simulation results and security analysis demonstrate that the proposed encryption algorithm achieved the performance of the state-of-the-art techniques in terms of quality, security, and robustness against noise- and signal-processing attacks

APPLIED CRYPTOGRAPHY IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

Nowadays, it is widely recognized that data security will play a central role in the design of IT devices. There are more than billion wireless users by now; it faces a growing need for security of embedded applications. This thesis focuses on the basic concept; properties and performance of symmetric and asymmetric cryptosystems. In this thesis, different encryption and decryption algorithms have been implemented on embedded systems. Moreover, the execution time and power consumption of each cryptography method have been evaluated as key performance indicators. CAESAR and AES are implemented for the microcontroller (ATmega8515). The STK 500 board is used for programming of the ATmega8515. Furthermore it is used for the communication between the microcontroller and PC to obtain the performance advantages of the cryptography methods. Time and power consumption are measured by using an oscilloscope and a multimeter. Furthermore the performance of different cryptography methods are compared.fi=Opinnäytetyö kokotekstinä PDF-muodossa.|en=Thesis fulltext in PDF format.|sv=Lärdomsprov tillgängligt som fulltext i PDF-format

Conjectured Security of the ANSI-NIST Elliptic Curve RNG

An elliptic curve random number generator (ECRNG) has been proposed in ANSI and NIST draft standards. This paper proves that, if three conjectures are true, then the ECRNG is secure. The three conjectures are hardness of the elliptic curve decisional Diffie-Hellman problem and the hardness of two newer problems, the x-logarithm problem and the truncated point problem

Optimizations of Isogeny-based Key Exchange

Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman (SIDH) is a key exchange scheme that is believed to be quantum-resistant. It is based on the difficulty of finding a certain isogeny between given elliptic curves. Over the last nine years, optimizations have been proposed that significantly increased the performance of its implementations. Today, SIDH is a promising candidate in the US National Institute for Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) post-quantum cryptography standardization process. This work is a self-contained introduction to the active research on SIDH from a high-level, algorithmic lens. After an introduction to elliptic curves and SIDH itself, we describe the mathematical and algorithmic building blocks of the fastest known implementations. Regarding elliptic curves, we describe which algorithms, data structures and trade-offs regard- ing elliptic curve arithmetic and isogeny computations exist and quantify their runtime cost in field operations. These findings are then tailored to the situation of SIDH. As a result, we give efficient algorithms for the performance-critical parts of the protocol

Bit Security of the CDH Problems over Finite Field

It is a long-standing open problem to prove the existence of (deterministic) hard-core predicates for the Computational Diffie-Hellman (CDH) problem over finite fields, without resorting to the generic approaches for any one-way functions (e.g., the Goldreich-Levin hard-core predicates). Fazio et al. (FGPS, Crypto \u2713) make important progress on this problem by defining a weaker Computational Diffie-Hellman problem over $\mathbb{F}_{p^2}$, i.e., Partial-CDH problem, and proving, when allowing changing field representations, the unpredictability of every single bit of one of the coordinates of the secret Diffie-Hellman value

Hardness of Computing Individual Bits for One-way Functions on Elliptic Curves

We prove that if one can predict any of the bits of the input to an elliptic curve based one-way function over a finite field, then we can invert the function. In particular, our result implies that if one can predict any of the bits of the input to a classical pairing-based one-way function with non-negligible advantage over a random guess then one can efficiently invert this function and thus, solve the Fixed Argument Pairing Inversion problem (FAPI-1/FAPI-2). The latter has implications on the security of various pairing-based schemes such as the identity-based encryption scheme of Boneh–Franklin, Hess’ identity-based signature scheme, as well as Joux’s three-party one-round key agreement protocol. Moreover, if one can solve FAPI-1 and FAPI-2 in polynomial time then one can solve the Computational Diffie--Hellman problem (CDH) in polynomial time. Our result implies that all the bits of the functions defined above are hard-to-compute assuming these functions are one-way. The argument is based on a list-decoding technique via discrete Fourier transforms due to Akavia--Goldwasser–Safra as well as an idea due to Boneh–Shparlinski