Stateful public-key cryptosystems: how to encrypt with one 160-bit exponentiation

  • Authors:
  • Mihir Bellare;Tadayoshi Kohno;Victor Shoup

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA;University of Washington, Seattle, WA;New York University, New York, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We show how to significantly speed-up the encryption portion of some public-key cryptosystems by the simple expedient of allowing a sender to maintain state that is re-used across different encryptions.In particular we present stateful versions of the DHIES and Kurosawa-Desmedt schemes that each use only 1 exponentiation to encrypt, as opposed to 2 and 3 respectively in the original schemes, yielding the fastest discrete-log based public-key encryption schemes known in the random-oracle and standard models respectively. The schemes are proven to meet an appropriate extension of the standard definition of IND-CCA security that takes into account novel types of attacks possible in the stateful setting.