Relations among Security Goals of Probabilistic Public-Key Cryptosystems

Ako SUZUKI  Yuichi KAJI  Hajime WATANABE  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E84-A   No.1   pp.172-178
Publication Date: 2001/01/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
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probabilistic public-key encryption schemes,  chosen-plaintext attack,  chosen-ciphertext attack,  equivalence undecidability,  non-verifiability,  

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Summary: 
This paper newly formalizes some notions of security for probabilistic public-key encryption schemes. The framework for these notions was originally presented in the work by Bellare et al., in which they consider non-malleability and indistinguishability under chosen-plaintext attack, non-adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack and adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack. This paper extends the results of Bellare et al. by introducing two goals, equivalence undecidability and non-verifiability under the above three attack models. Such goals are sometimes required in electronic voting and bids systems. It is shown that equivalence undecidability, non-verifiability and indistinguishability are all equivalent under the three attack models.