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Paper: On Beyond-Birthday-Bound Security: Revisiting the Development of ISO/IEC 9797-1 MACs

Authors: Yaobin Shen , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Lei Wang , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China; University College Oxford Blockchain Research Centre; Oxford-Hainan Blockchain Research Institute DOI: 10.13154/tosc.v2019.i2.146-168 URL: https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8317 Search ePrint Search Google Best Paper FSE 2020 ISO/IEC 9797-1 is an international standard for block-cipher-based Message Authentication Code (MAC). The current version ISO/IEC 9797-1:2011 specifies six single-pass CBC-like MAC structures that are capped at the birthday bound security. For a higher security that is beyond-birthday bound, it recommends to use the concatenation combiner of two single-pass MACs. In this paper, we reveal the invalidity of the suggestion, by presenting a birthday bound forgery attack on the concatenation combiner, which is essentially based on Joux’s multi-collision. Notably, our new forgery attack for the concatenation of two MAC Algorithm 1 with padding scheme 2 only requires 3 queries. Moreover, we look for patches by revisiting the development of ISO/IEC 9797-1 with respect to the beyond-birthday bound security. More specifically, we evaluate the XOR combiner of single-pass CBC-like MACs, which was used in previous version of ISO/IEC 9797-1.
BibTeX
@article{tosc-2019-29508,
title={On Beyond-Birthday-Bound Security: Revisiting the Development of ISO/IEC 9797-1 MACs},
journal={IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology},
publisher={Ruhr-Universität Bochum},
volume={2019, Issue 2},
pages={146-168},
url={https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/8317},
doi={10.13154/tosc.v2019.i2.146-168},
author={Yaobin Shen and Lei Wang},
year=2019
}