Simplified OAEP for the RSA and Rabin Functions

  • Authors:
  • Dan Boneh

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '01 Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Optimal Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) is a technique for converting the RSA trapdoor permutation into a chosen cipher-text secure system in the random oracle model. OAEP padding can be viewed as two rounds of a Feistel network. We show that for the Rabin and RSA trapdoor functions a much simpler padding scheme is sufficient for chosen ciphertext security in the random oracle model. We show that only one round of a Feistel network is sufficient. The proof of security uses the algebraic properties of the RSA and Rabin functions.