Paper 2003/078
Relation among simulator-based and comparison-based definitions of semantic security
Yodai Watanabe and Junji Shikata
Abstract
This paper studies the relation among simulator-based and comparison-based definitions of semantic security. The definitions are considered in a more general framework than the ordinal one; namely, an adversary is assumed to have access to prior information of a plaintext. If the framework is restricted to the ordinal one, then all the security notions considered in this paper, including indistinguishability, are shown to be equivalent. On the other hand, the equivalence is not necessarily valid in the general framework. In fact, it is shown that no encryption scheme is secure in the sense of comparison-based semantic security in the strongest forms. Furthermore, a sufficient condition for the equivalence between semantic security and indistinguishability is derived.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF PS
- Category
- Foundations
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- Security notionsSemantic securityEncryption schemes
- Contact author(s)
- yodai @ brain riken go jp
- History
- 2003-11-16: last of 3 revisions
- 2003-04-25: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2003/078
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2003/078,
author = {Yodai Watanabe and Junji Shikata},
title = {Relation among simulator-based and comparison-based definitions of semantic security},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2003/078},
year = {2003},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2003/078}
}