PolyE+CTR: a swiss-army-knife mode for block ciphers

  • Authors:
  • Liting Zhang;Wenling Wu;Peng Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;State Key Laboratory of Information Security, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China;Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ProvSec'11 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Provable security
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a new kind of mode of operation for block ciphers. By a single key, such a mode can protect data for privacy, authenticity and they both respectively, so we call it Swiss-Army-Knife mode. The purpose of SAK mode is to increase diversity of security services for a single key, thus we can provide different protections for data with different security requirements, without rekeying the underlying block cipher. As an example, we propose PolyE+CTR, an SAK mode that combines an authentication mode PolyE and a nonce-based encryption mode CTR in the authentication-and-encryption method. PolyE+CTR is provably secure with high efficiency.