Symmetric subgroup membership problems

  • Authors:
  • Kristian Gjøsteen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Matematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

  • Venue:
  • PKC'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Theory and Practice in Public Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We define and discuss symmetric subgroup membershipproblems and their properties, including a relation to the Decision Diffie-Hellman problem. We modify the Cramer-Shoup framework, so that we can derive a chosen ciphertext secure cryptosystem in the standard model from symmetric subgroup membership problems. We also discuss how chosen ciphertext secure hybrid cryptosystems based on a symmetric subgroup membership can be constructed in the standard model, giving a very efficient cryptosystem whose security relies solely on the symmetric subgroup membership problem.