Questions tagged [chosen-ciphertext-attack]
A chosen-ciphertext attack (CCA) is an attack model for cryptanalysis in which the cryptanalyst gathers information, at least in part, by choosing a ciphertext and obtaining its decryption under an unknown key.
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Question about the notation $H\leftarrow\mathcal{H}_{\mathcal{K}}$ in an IND-CCA security experiment
In the paper
"Hybrid Key Encapsulation Mechanisms and Authenticated Key Exchange"
by Bindel et al., I looked at the IND-CCA security experiment (figure 3).
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Why is the adversary in IND-CCA allowed to make encryption queries?
IND-CCA is an abbreviation of "Indistinguishability under chosen ciphertext attack" and generally, an adversary carrying out the chosen ciphertext attack is given a decryption oracle only. ...
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Does Grover's algorithm really threaten symmetric security proofs?
By Shannon's theorem of perfect security, if I give you a ciphertext 'LOUPL', you can do a brute-force attack and then you would find plaintexts like 'HELLO', 'APPLE', 'SPOON', but you can't ...
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Chosen plaintext attack on Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem
As I was reading on some encryption schemes the other day, I stumbled upon the Blum–Goldwasser cryptosystem and read that it is vulnerable to adaptive chosen ciphertext attack.
I searched for some ...
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Kyber-CCA-KEM - Deterministic implicit rejection
In Kyber-CCA-KEM, there's a step in the Fujisaki-Okamoto transformation, where decryption failure results in a random shared secret returned from the decapsulation call.
I have a C language project ...
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Does CCA security require rejection?
It seems like every CCA-secure KEM1 has some sort of check that the decapsulator performs. Sometimes failure will result in rejection ("explicit rejection") or the decapsulator will simply ...
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KYBER.CPAPKE: IND-CCA Security of Lyubashevsky, Peikert, Regev (LPR) Encryption
The NIST Kyber KEM spec. defines an encryption scheme, KYBER.CPAPKE, that's a variant of the so called Lyubashevsky, Peikert, Regev ("LPR") encryption scheme [1]. While LPR encryption is ...
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Does CCA security imply perfect secrecy?
Can any encryption scheme that is CCA (Chosen Ciphertext Attack) secure be considered to achieve perfect secrecy?
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Are RSA-KEM key exchange material cyphertexts indistinguishable from random noise?
First of all, I know that I should not be using RSA in 2023, and that I'm better off with Elligator2 + ECIES for a variety of reasons.
However, I am thinking about whether RSA-KEM can be used for PURB-...
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CBC not CCA secure
I always get stuck at those kind of exercises in my Cryptography class. I just don't understand how should I build these scenarios of "sending m1 and m2 and then somehow telling if it was m1 or ...
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Which encryption method support 256 bytes block size?
I am looking at some secret encryption method that apparently uses CBC and a block size of 256 bytes. I can do a chosen-ciphertext-attack. When I modify a single byte in the ciphertext a complete ...
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Variant of CCA security for Paillier with blinded decryption oracle
Consider a variant of the Paillier encryption scheme where the message space is restricted to $\mathbb{Z}_q$ such that the RSA modulus $N$ of the Paillier cryptosystem satisfies $N > q + q^2$. I am ...
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How is Crystal Kyber CPA-secure algorithms converted into a CCA-secure algorithm
In Crystal Kyber specification, page no10, there are 3 algorithms namely KYBER.CCAKEM for making the CPA-secure Kyber into CCA-secure one.
Q1: How is the shared key K being generated in KYBER.CCAKEM....
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Is AES distinguishable if the attacker has an decryption oracle?
Let the following game be given:
G^IND-CCA':
Prepare a key k <- KeyGen(1^Kappa)
Choose a hidden bit h <- {0, 1} uniformly random
Prepare a decryption oracle O_Dec. Given a cipher text c, it ...
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Curious about CCA attack for RSA, and Kerckhoffs's principle in general
I'm a student studying cybersecurity for the first time, and the part where our textbook explains using CCA attacks for RSAs seemed really unclear for me, so I am here seeking for clarification.
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Construction of a SKE scheme based on a PRF family and on a MAC with UF-CMA security. Is the scheme secure?
Consider the following construction of a SKE scheme $\Pi^*=(Enc^*,Dec^*)$ based on a PRF family $F=\{F_k:\{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}^n\}_{k\in\{0,1\}^\lambda}$ and on a MAC
$ Tag:\{0,1\}^\lambda \...
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What are the possible CCA attacks on RSA with r||m+G(r) as the padding?
I was trying to come up with simple padding functions for the RSA, then trying to break them just to have a better understanding of why we need all the pieces used in the RSA OAEP... So, I am ...
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CCA-Attacks in the real (and digital) world
Is any concrete and real examples of CCA-attacks in recent history.
I'm aware about examples of WW2, but I'm more interested to modern examples in a digital context (for example against OFB, CBC).
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Bleichenbacher 1998 "Million message attack" CCA
After implementing and playing around with famous "Chosen Ciphertext Attacks Against Protocols Based on the RSA Encryption Standard PKCS #1" there couple of questions which I can't really ...
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Is the following scheme CCA secure? I purposed a scheme and I am not sure if it is CCA secure, if not, how can it be CCA secure?
Here is my idea:
Under the symmetric key encryption. Alice and Bob share the symmetric key K. Let HASH be a secure hash function and ...
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Can we achieve IND-CCA without a MAC?
In modern cryptography, IND-CPA is the lowest security we want. We want at least IND-CCAx security from encryption mode. Their relation can be found in
2007 Authenticated Encryption: Relations among ...
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Essential requirement for IND-CCA1 and IND-CCA2
I am learning about the concept of two security notions called IND-, which include IND-CPA, IND-CCA1 and IND-CCA2. While I got some grasp understanding about the scenarios between the challenger & ...
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Can we force a chosen ciphertext to be decrypted to a chosen plaintext while controlling only $e(=3)$ in RSA? [duplicate]
I have bumped into this challenge from a well known CTF site. I don't want to make a reference to it because I don't want this to be a hint for anyone. And also to avoid giving out the source code of ...
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CPA secure to CCA secure encryption
Can we use a MAC to transform a CPA secure encryption scheme into CCA secure one?
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Trying to understand this Solution related to CCA security
4.25) Let F be a strong pseudorandom permutation, and define the following fixed-length encryption scheme: On input a message $m ∈ \{0,1\}^{n/2}$ and key $k ∈ \{0,1\}^n$, algorithm $Enc$ chooses a ...
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QR-PKE not CCA secure
Due to a comment stating "... QR-PKE is secure (CPA)..." I've been thinking of how to prove that it's not CCA secure, and would like to understand whether my proof is correct.
Here's the QR-...
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Clarification for CCA security (or - why is the following not a Rabin CCA attack?)
In three different, highly reputable sources (e.g. "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Katz and Lindell, 2007), the definition of CCA attack doesn't allow the adversary to decrypt the ...
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Proving that RSA CCA is possible
I'm reading from William Stalling's Cryptography & Network Security - 7th Edition
To me the first line suggests
$$(M^e\bmod n)\times(2^e\bmod n)=((2M)^e\bmod n)$$
which means that if we want to ...
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Do attackers need to know what ciphers are being used when conducting ciphertext-only, known plaintext, chosen plaintext, and chosen ciphertext attack
I am trying to understand the basic ingredients needed to conduct various types of cryptanalytical attacks.
For instance, I understand that for Ciphertext-Only Attacks (COA) an attacker only has ...
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The essential differences between IND-CCA1 and IND-CCA2?
For some encryption scheme $(\mathcal{E}, \mathcal{D})$:
In the definition of IND-CCA, the adversary $\mathcal{A}$ can access the decryption oracle $\mathcal{D}$. The deep reason of this setting is to ...
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Analysis of the Vigenere cipher
Im just starting out learning some cryptoanalysis techniques. I came across an idea which analyzes the vigenere cipher. Essentially the video explains that there is a standard english probability ...
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Indistinguishability of symmetric encryption under CCA
I am learning about symmetric encryption and its security properties. One of the security notion is security against chosen cipher-text attacks (CCA), particularly IND-CCA notion.
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How can we measure the security levels of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms? Is there a standard way of this measurement?
How do we measure the security levels of Post Quantum Cryptographic algorithms such as: NTRU Prime, Saber, Kyber,...that are submited to NIST PQC Standardization Process(Competition) in general?
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Rabin Cryptosystem: Chosen-Ciphertext Attack
I read in literature that Rabin Cryptosystem can be broken using chosen-ciphertext attack. It is described that after chosen ciphertext is decrypted attacker can factorize public key $n$ by using ...
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CCA security in QROM for symmetric schemes
Assume that we have a symmetric encryption scheme $\Pi_s$ that is IND-CCA secure in the standard model. Does this imply that $\Pi_s$ is IND-CCA in QROM?
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CPA + one-time strong signature --> CCA?
Does combining a CPA PKE (public key encryption) scheme with a one-time strong signature construct a CCA PKE scheme? More specifically, let $(Enc,Dec)$ be a CPA PKE scheme, and $(V,S)$ be a one-time ...
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Can CPA secure scheme be converted to CCA secure?
I would like to know if there are some methods or techniques that can convert a public key encryption scheme from CPA secure to CCA secure?
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When is a PQ key-exchange algorithm suitable for use with long-term static keys?
I took a look at Cloudflare Circl because I'm curious which Post-Quantum algorithms are implemented in Go, which could be used to exchange a key.
I read this comment that SIDH is only good for ...
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AES GCM : is it acceptable to return the wrong plaintext if the tag is incorrect?
Let's start by saying I'm no cryptography expert, I'm just a developer, so feel free to correct me (using words, not downvotes) if what I'm saying is non-sense.
Context: I'm doing some crypto as a ...
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getting key $k_{2}$ somehow definitely compromise authentication scheme and attacker can see cipher text now...so not secure
I was going through this question of nested encryption:
Given $\Pi$ = $({Gen}, {Enc}, {Dec})$ is authentication encryption we have designed new scheme $\Pi^{'}$ = $({Gen^{'}}, {Enc{'}}, {Dec{'}})$ ...
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Not getting idea how to formally chose chosen cipher attack so adversay wins with non-negligible probability
I was going through this question and intuition came that same message can be used to break security but I an not able formalize it well...can someone help how to create chosen ciphertext attack ...
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IND-CCA insecurity of modified CBC encrypt + MAC scheme
I've been puzzling over the following proof for the past couple of days.
Since a block cipher in CBC mode can be used to build both an IND-CPA secure
encryption scheme and a EUF-CMA secure block, a ...
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Question on the disprove of CCA security
I have a question on the disprove of the CCA-security given in Katz & Lindell's textbook (2nd edition) in chapter 3.7 on page 97. It works like this:
Consider our construction based on PRFs: $\...
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IND-CCA game proof of Encrypt-then-Mac
In [BN07, Subsection 4.3], the authors show that if a symmetric scheme $\mathcal{SE}$ is IND-CPA and a MAC $\mathcal{MA}$ is EUF-CMA (though they use the SUF-CMA notation, but I think it refers to the ...
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Guarding against vulnerabilities for a digital signature service (RSA )
Lets's say I have a cipher-module / cryptography-service that signs a hash of some unknown payload.
What are the possible attacks that I would need to guard against in this context (primarily assuming ...
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Question about IND-CCA security
We are given the following securitygame $G^{\text{LOSTNAME}}$:
Generate $k \leftarrow \{0,1\}^{\kappa}$ uniformly at random
Choose $h \leftarrow \{0,1\}$ uniformly random
Create decryption oracle $\...
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Security of Paillier against chosen ciphertext attack
Is there a proof by now that Paillier is secure against chosen-ciphertext attack? The original Paillier paper mentions that it is not.
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Is there a relation between passive/active attacks and IND-CPA/IND-CCA?
I've seen some papers drawing a connection between IND-CPA and passive attacks and IND-CCA and active attacks. Can someone explain how IND-CPA relates to passive attacks and IND-CCA relates to active ...
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Can a CCA-secure cryptosystem be used as a CMA-secure MAC?
Can every CCA-secure cryptosystem be used as a CMA-secure MAC?
I know that every CCA-secure system is CPA-secure, but I'm not sure about CMA. From what I understand: for a system to be CCA-secure, it ...
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CCA secure vs AE scheme
We already know that every authenticated encryption scheme is CCA secure, I was wondering about the converse.
I believe it is not true, and I am finding trouble to construct a scheme which is only CCA ...