Information-theoretically secure key-insulated multireceiver authentication codes

  • Authors:
  • Takenobu Seito;Tadashi Aikawa;Junji Shikata;Tsutomu Matsumoto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan;Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan;Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan;Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University, Japan

  • Venue:
  • AFRICACRYPT'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Cryptology in Africa
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Exposing a secret-key is one of the most disastrous threats in cryptographic protocols. The key-insulated security is proposed with the aim of realizing the protection against such key-exposure problems. In this paper, we study key-insulated authentication schemes with information-theoretic security. More specifically, we focus on one of information-theoretically secure authentication, called multireceiver authentication codes, and we newly define a model and security notions of information-theoretically secure key-insulated multireceiver authentication codes (KI-MRA for short) based on the ideas of both computationally secure key-insulated signature schemes and multireceiver authentication-codes with information-theoretic setting. In addition, we show lower bounds of sizes of entities' secret-keys. We also provide two kinds of constructions of KI-MRA: direct and generic constructions which are provably secure in our security definitions. It is shown that the direct construction meets the lower bounds of key-sizes with equality. Therefore, it turns out that our lower bounds are tight, and that the direct construction is optimal.