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A primitive or protocol with provable security is accompanied by a mathematical proof that shows how to reduce the security claims about the protocol to a set of assumptions.

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How did the Koblitz/Menezes papers affect the cryptography community?

My impression (which is limited) is that the most researchers are pretty content with the state of security proofs, and it did not have much impact on changing the research agenda of the community. In …
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Random oracle model proofs and programmability

Your second question was about programmability. This hasn't been directly addressed yet by Thomas' answer or the comments, so I'll focus on that question only. Unfortunately I don't know of a simple p …
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Can you help with that definition for a CCA?

In step 2, the adversary outputs two messages. One of these will be selected at random for encryption. You can think of the adversary sending these messages to a "challenger" that also has oracle acce …
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