Toward an easy-to-understand structure for achieving chosen ciphertext security from the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption

  • Authors:
  • Shota Yamada;Goichiro Hanaoka;Noboru Kunihiro

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Tokyo;National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology;The University of Tokyo

  • Venue:
  • ProvSec'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Provable security
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a new public key encryption scheme which is proven chosen-ciphertext (CCA) secure under the decisional Diffie-Hellman (DDH) assumption. The main motivation behind this scheme is to clarify the essential mechanism for yielding CCA-security from the DDH assumption. The structure and security proof of our scheme is simple, and it is likely that even non-experts can immediately understand them with ease. We consider that our scheme is helpful for convincing a wide range of users (including developers and students who are just starting to study CCA-secure encryption) how the Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem and its variants work.