2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Adaptive Witness Encryption and Asymmetric Password-Based Cryptography
verfasst von : Mihir Bellare, Viet Tung Hoang
Erschienen in: Public-Key Cryptography -- PKC 2015
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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We show by counter-example that the soundness security requirement for witness encryption given by Garg, Gentry, Sahai and Waters (STOC 2013) does not suffice for the security of their own applications. We introduce adaptively-sound (AS) witness encryption to fill the gap. We then introduce asymmetric password-based encryption (A-PBE). This offers gains over classical, symmetric password-based encryption in the face of attacks that compromise servers to recover hashed passwords. We distinguish between invasive A-PBE schemes (they introduce new password-based key-derivation functions) and non-invasive ones (they can use existing, deployed password-based key-derivation functions). We give simple and efficient invasive A-PBE schemes and use AS-secure witness encryption to give non-invasive A-PBE schemes.