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A Simpler Construction of CCA2-Secure Public-Key Encryption Under General Assumptions

Authors:
Yehuda Lindell
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/057
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Abstract: In this paper we present a simpler construction of an encryption scheme that achieves adaptive chosen ciphertext security (CCA2), assuming the existence of trapdoor permutations. We build on previous works of Sahai and De Santis et al. and construct a scheme that we believe is the easiest to understand to date. In particular, it is only slightly more involved than the Naor-Yung encryption scheme that is secure against passive chosen-ciphertext attacks (CCA1). We stress that the focus of this paper is on simplicity only.
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@misc{eprint-2002-11581,
  title={A Simpler Construction of CCA2-Secure Public-Key Encryption Under General Assumptions},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={public-key cryptography / CCA2-security, adaptive chosen-ciphertext attacks, general assumptions},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2002/057},
  note={Eurocrypt 2003 lindell@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il 12074 received 12 May 2002, last revised 22 Jan 2003},
  author={Yehuda Lindell},
  year=2002
}