Universally composable security with global setup

Ran Canetti, Yevgeniy Dodis, Rafael Pass, Shabsi Walfish

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Abstract

Cryptographic protocols are often designed and analyzed under some trusted set-up assumptions, namely in settings where the participants have access to global information that is trusted to have some basic security properties. However, current modeling of security in the presence of such set-up falls short of providing the expected security guarantees. A quintessential example of this phenomenon is the deniability concern: there exist natural protocols that meet the strongest known composable security notions, and are still vulnerable to bad interactions with rogue protocols that use the same set-up. We extend the notion of universally composable (UC) security in a way that re-establishes its original intuitive guarantee even for protocols that use globally available set-up. The new formulation prevents bad interactions even with adaptively chosen protocols that use the same set-up. In particular, it guarantees deniability. While for protocols that use no set-up the proposed requirements are the same as in traditional UC security, for protocols that use global set-up the proposed requirements are significantly stronger. In fact, realizing Zero Knowledge or commitment becomes provably impossible, even in the Common Reference String model. Still, we propose reasonable alternative set-up assumptions and protocols that allow realizing practically any cryptographic task under standard hardness assumptions even against adaptive corruptions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationTheory of Cryptography - 4th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2007, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages61-85
Number of pages25
ISBN (Print)9783540709350
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event4th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2OO7 - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: Feb 21 2007Feb 24 2007

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4392 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other4th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2OO7
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period2/21/072/24/07

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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