IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
In this paper we focus on the PRINCE block cipher reduced to 6 rounds, with two known plaintext/ciphertext pairs. We develop two attacks on 6-round PRINCE based on accelerated exha...
IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
We propose the first UC commitment scheme for binary strings with the optimal properties of rate approaching 1 and linear time (in the amortised sense, using a small number of see...
IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
In this paper we study and give the first detailed benchmarks on existing implementations of the secp256k1 elliptic curve used by at least hundreds of thousands of users in Bitco...
IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
We explore the use of the Mantin biases (Mantin, Eurocrypt 2005) to recover plaintexts from RC4-encrypted traffic. We provide a more fine-grained analysis of these biases than in ...
IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
Secret handshakes (SH) scheme is a key agreement protocol between two members of the same group. Under this scheme two members share a common key if and only if they both belong t...
IACR
2016
8 years 24 days ago
2016
Abstract. We present the Balloon family of password hashing functions. These are the first cryptographic hash functions with proven space-hardness properties that: (i) use a passw...