2014 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Reconsidering Generic Composition
verfasst von : Chanathip Namprempre, Phillip Rogaway, Thomas Shrimpton
Erschienen in: Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2014
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In the context of authenticated encryption (AE),
generic composition
has referred to the construction of an AE scheme by gluing together a conventional (privacy-only) encryption scheme and a MAC. Since the work of Bellare and Namprempre (2000) and then Krawczyk (2001), the conventional wisdom has become that there are three forms of generic composition, with Encrypt-then-MAC the only one that generically works. However, many caveats to this understanding have surfaced over the years. Here we explore this issue further, showing how this understanding oversimplifies the situation because it ignores the results’ sensitivity to definitional choices. When encryption is formalized differently, making it either IV-based or nonce-based, rather than probabilistic, and when the AE goal is likewise changed to take in a nonce, qualitatively different results emerge. We explore these alternatives versions of the generic-composition story. We also evidence the overreaching understanding of prior generic-composition results by pointing out that the Encrypt-then-MAC mechanism of ISO 19772 is completely wrong.