Efficient key encapsulation to multiple parties

  • Authors:
  • N. P. Smart

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • SCN'04 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Security in Communication Networks
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We present the notion of an mKEM, which is a Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) which takes multiple public keys as input. This has applications where one wishes to encrypt a single large document to a set of multiple recipients, as when one sends an encrypted email to more than one person. We present a security definition and show that the naive approach to implementing an mKEM is secure under this definition. We then go on to present a more efficient construction of an mKEM, which is secure in the random oracle model.