Description
Providing security proofs instead of arguing lack of existing relevant attacks is a quite new approach when it comes to cryptography. In the last thirty years, a lot of work has been done to formalize security of systems and prove of the achievement of security criteria. It has resulted in the design of a great number of proofs under various hypotheses. Though a step in the right direction, these pencil-and-paper proofs are so numerous, involved and technical that the community has difficulty to carefully check them. The well-known example of the encryption scheme OAEP whose security proof, apparently correct, was corrected seven years after its publication illustrates that security-dedicated verification tools need to be designed. Our work takes place in the so-called computational model, where messages are considered to be bitstrings, and system adversaries are probabilistic Turing machines. A proof of security is then a complexity-theoretic reduction argument: the probability of success of an adversary in solving a security challenge is reduced to its ability to solve a known difficult problem (given a fixed amount of resources). Firstly, we provide some intuition on usual security requirements, and common sketches of security proofs. Then, we present a semantics and a logic to formalize security proofs. One could say there are several levels in automatic proving: computer-aided verification of proofs, computer-aided design of proofs, and automatic generation of proofs. We show how our inference rules can be used to derive proofs and verify them automatically, or sometimes perform a proof search using some additional inputs.
Prochains exposés
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Some applications of linear programming to Dilithium
Orateur : Paco AZEVEDO OLIVEIRA - Thales & UVSQ
Dilithium is a signature algorithm, considered post-quantum, and recently standardized under the name ML-DSA by NIST. Due to its security and performance, it is recommended in most use cases. During this presentation, I will outline the main ideas behind two studies, conducted in collaboration with Andersson Calle-Vierra, Benoît Cogliati, and Louis Goubin, which provide a better understanding of[…] -
Wagner’s Algorithm Provably Runs in Subexponential Time for SIS^∞
Orateur : Johanna Loyer - Inria Saclay
At CRYPTO 2015, Kirchner and Fouque claimed that a carefully tuned variant of the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman (BKW) algorithm (JACM 2003) should solve the Learning with Errors problem (LWE) in slightly subexponential time for modulus q = poly(n) and narrow error distribution, when given enough LWE samples. Taking a modular view, one may regard BKW as a combination of Wagner’s algorithm (CRYPTO 2002), run[…]-
Cryptography
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CryptoVerif: a computationally-sound security protocol verifier
Orateur : Bruno Blanchet - Inria
CryptoVerif is a security protocol verifier sound in the computational model of cryptography. It produces proofs by sequences of games, like those done manually by cryptographers. It has an automatic proof strategy and can also be guided by the user. It provides a generic method for specifying security assumptions on many cryptographic primitives, and can prove secrecy, authentication, and[…]-
Cryptography
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Structured-Seed Local Pseudorandom Generators and their Applications
Orateur : Nikolas Melissaris - IRIF
We introduce structured‑seed local pseudorandom generators (SSL-PRGs), pseudorandom generators whose seed is drawn from an efficiently sampleable, structured distribution rather than uniformly. This seemingly modest relaxation turns out to capture many known applications of local PRGs, yet it can be realized from a broader family of hardness assumptions. Our main technical contribution is a[…]-
Cryptography
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