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Obfuscation ⇒ (IND-CPA Security \(\not\Rightarrow\) Circular Security)

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Abstract

Circular security is an important notion for public-key encryption schemes and is needed by several cryptographic protocols. In circular security the adversary is given an extra “hint” consisting of a cycle of encryption of secret keys i.e.,  \(\left(E_{pk_1}(sk_2),\ldots, E_{pk_n}(sk_1)\right)\). A natural question is whether every IND-CPA encryption scheme is also circular secure. It is trivial to see that this is not the case when n = 1. In 2010 a separation for n = 2 was shown by [ABBC10,GH10] under standard assumptions in bilinear groups.

In this paper we finally settle the question showing that for every n there exists an IND-CPA secure scheme which is not n-circular secure.

Our result relies on the recent progress in cryptographic obfuscation.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Cornell UniversityUSA
  2. 2.Scuola Superiore di CataniaUniversity of CataniaItaly
  3. 3.Aarhus UniversityDenmark

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