The Kurosawa-Desmedt Key Encapsulation is not Chosen-Ciphertext Secure

نویسندگان

  • Javier Herranz
  • Dennis Hofheinz
  • Eike Kiltz
چکیده

At CRYPTO 2004, Kurosawa and Desmedt presented a hybrid public-key encryption scheme that is chosen-ciphertext secure in the standard model. Until now it was unknown if the key-encapsulation part of the Kurosawa-Desmedt scheme by itself is still chosenciphertext secure or not. In this short note we answer this question to the negative, namely we present a simple chosen-ciphertext attack on the Kurosawa-Desmedt key encapsulation mechanism.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

دوره 2006  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2006