Deniable Authentication on the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Shaoquan Jiang

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Information Security and Cryptography, University of Calgary,

  • Venue:
  • Information Security and Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Deniable authentication is a technique that allows one party to send messages to another while the latter can not prove to a third party the fact of communication. In this paper, we formalize a natural notion of deniable security and naturally extend the basic authenticator theorem by Bellare et al. [1] to the setting of deniable authentication. Of independent interest, this extension is achieved by defining a deniable MT-authenticator via a game. This game is essentially borrowed from the notion of universal composition [6] although we do not assume any result or background about it. Then we construct a 3-round deniable MT-authenticator. Finally, as our application, we obtain a key exchange protocol that is deniably secure in the real world.