## CryptoDB

### Philipp Jovanovic

#### Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2021
EUROCRYPT
In this paper we introduce a distributed key generation (DKG) protocol with aggregatable and publicly verifiable transcripts. As compared with prior approaches, our DKG reduces the size of the final transcript and the time to verify it from O(n^2) to O(n), where n denotes the number of parties. We also revisit existing DKG security definitions, which are quite strong, and propose new and natural relaxations. As a result, we can prove the security of our aggregatable DKG as well as that of several existing DKGs, including the popular Pedersen variant. We show that, under these new definitions, these existing DKGs can be used to yield secure threshold variants of popular cryptosystems such as El-Gamal encryption and BLS signatures. We also prove that our DKG can be securely combined with a new efficient verifiable unpredictable function (VUF), whose security we prove in the random oracle model. Finally, we experimentally evaluate our DKG and show that the per-party overheads scale linearly and are practical: for 64 parties it takes 71ms to share and 359ms to verify the overall transcript, while these respective costs for 8192 parties are 8s and 42.2s.
2019
JOFC
The Sponge function is known to achieve $2^{c/2}$ 2 c / 2 security, where c is its capacity. This bound was carried over to its keyed variants, such as SpongeWrap, to achieve a $\min \{2^{c/2},2^\kappa \}$ min { 2 c / 2 , 2 κ } security bound, with $\kappa$ κ the key length. Similarly, many CAESAR competition submissions were designed to comply with the classical $2^{c/2}$ 2 c / 2 security bound. We show that Sponge-based constructions for authenticated encryption can achieve the significantly higher bound of $\min \{2^{b/2},2^c,2^\kappa \}$ min { 2 b / 2 , 2 c , 2 κ } , with $b>c$ b > c the permutation size, by proving that the CAESAR submission NORX achieves this bound. The proof relies on rigorous computation of multi-collision probabilities, which may be of independent interest. We additionally derive a generic attack based on multi-collisions that matches the bound. We show how to apply the proof to five other Sponge-based CAESAR submissions: Ascon, CBEAM/STRIBOB, ICEPOLE, Keyak, and two out of the three PRIMATEs. A direct application of the result shows that the parameter choices of some of these submissions are overly conservative. Simple tweaks render the schemes considerably more efficient without sacrificing security. We finally consider the remaining one of the three PRIMATEs, APE, and derive a blockwise adaptive attack in the nonce-respecting setting with complexity $2^{c/2}$ 2 c / 2 , therewith demonstrating that the techniques cannot be applied to APE.
2016
EUROCRYPT
2015
EPRINT
2015
EPRINT
2015
EPRINT
2015
FSE
2014
EPRINT
2014
EPRINT
2014
ASIACRYPT