Randomness leakage in the KEM/DEM framework

  • Authors:
  • Hitoshi Namiki;Keisuke Tanaka;Kenji Yasunaga

  • Affiliations:
  • Ricoh Co., Ltd., Tokyo;Tokyo Institute of Technology;Tokyo Institute of Technology

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

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Abstract

Recently, there have been many studies on constructing cryptographic primitives that are secure even if some secret information leaks. In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing public-key encryption schemes that are resilient to leaking the randomness used in the encryption algorithm. In particular, we consider the case in which publickey encryption schemes are constructed from the KEM/DEM framework, and the leakage of randomness in the encryption algorithms of KEM and DEM occurs independently. For this purpose, we define a new security notion for KEM. Then we provide a generic construction of a public-key encryption scheme that is resilient to randomness leakage from any KEM scheme satisfying this security. Also we construct a KEM scheme that satisfies the security under the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption.