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Ilmari Karonen
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M. Bellare, T. Krovetz and P. Rogaway (1998), "Luby-Rackoff backwards: Increasing security by making block ciphers non-invertible", Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT '98, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1403.

"Abstract: We argue that the invertibility of a block cipher can reduce the security of schemes that use it, and a better starting point for scheme design is the non-invertible analog of a block cipher, that is, a pseudorandom function (PRF). Since a block cipher may be viewed as a pseudorandom permutation, we are led to investigate the reverse of the problem studied by Luby and Rackoff, and ask, how can one transform a PRP into a PRF in as security-preserving a way as possible? The solution we propose is "data-dependent re-keying." As an illustrative special case, let $E: \{0,1\}^n \times \{0,1\}^n \to \{0,1\}^n$ be the block cipher. Then we can construct the PRF $F$ from the PRP $E$ by setting $F(k,x) = E(E(k,x),x)$. We generalize this to allow for arbitrary block and key lengths, and to improve efficiency. We prove strong quantitative bounds on the value of data-dependent re-keying in the Shannon model of an ideal cipher, and take some initial steps towards an analysis in the standard model."