The cramer-shoup encryption scheme is plaintext aware in the standard model

  • Authors:
  • Alexander W. Dent

  • Affiliations:
  • Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, U.K.

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'06 Proceedings of the 24th annual international conference on The Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the notion of plaintext awareness as it applies to hybrid encryption schemes. We apply this theory to the Cramer-Shoup hybrid scheme acting on fixed length messages and deduce that the Cramer-Shoup scheme is plaintext-aware in the standard model. This answers a previously open conjecture of Bellare and Palacio on the existence of fully plaintext-aware encryption schemes.