Subversion-Resilient Authenticated Encryption without Random Oracles

ePrint Report: Subversion-Resilient Authenticated Encryption without Random Oracles

Pascal Bemmann, Sebastian Berndt, Denis Diemert, Thomas Eisenbarth, Tibor Jager

In 2013, the Snowden revelations have shown subversion of cryptographic implementations to be a relevant threat.
Since then, the academic community has been pushing the development of models and constructions
to defend against adversaries able to arbitrarily subvert cryptographic implementations.
To capture these strong capabilities of adversaries, Russell, Tang, Yung, and Zhou (CCS'17) proposed CPA-secure encryption in a model that utilizes a …

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