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Yes. If you are looking for AEAD ciphers wrapped around a single primitive, there are several in the CEASAR competition for authenticated encryption. AEAD ciphers based on sponge constructions notably use only a single primitive, the F-function of the sponge permutation. These include NORX, Keyak, PRIMATEs-APE, and ICEPOLE, which are the 4 I find most ...

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Yes, this is secure. Even simpler would be to just use XSalsa20-Poly1305 and the long term key directly. You could authenticate any additional data with the Poly1305 just as well as in the case of the ChaCha-based combination. However, if you use e.g. libsodium where the former interface does not support additional data and the latter has a short nonce, ...

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Yes, this seems to make sense and it is a plausible solution. The KEM approach does not work, unless you use some tricks, like including a hash of the message in the KEM. (That could work, of course.) Security goal The type of scheme we are looking at consists of three algorithms $(K,E,D)$. The key generation algorithm $K$ outputs two keys, say $k_0$ and ...

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I do not agree with the other answers and comments given here. The use of the 96-bit nonce gives the best bounds, but it is certainly not the only way to use GCM. Also, the degradation is gradual. It is not the case that anything else is insecure. Having said this, it is completely insecure to encrypt beyond $2^{32}$ blocks using a 96-bit counter since the ...

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