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Securing RSA-KEM via the AES

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Securing RSA-KEM via the AES
RSA-KEM is a popular key encapsulation mechanism that combines the RSA trapdoor permutation with a key derivation function (KDF). Often the details of the KDF are viewed as orthogonal to the RSA-KEM construction and the RSA-KEM proof of security models the KDF as a random oracle. In this paper we present an AES-based KDF that has been explicitly designed so that we can appeal to currently held views on the ideal behaviour of the AES when proving the security of RSA-KEM. Thus, assuming that encryption with the AES provides a permutation of 128-bit input blocks that is chosen uniformily at random for each key k, the security of RSA-KEM against chosen-ciphertext attacks can be related to the hardness of inverting RSA.
Jakob Jonsson, Matthew J. B. Robshaw
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Updated 28 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where PKC
Authors Jakob Jonsson, Matthew J. B. Robshaw
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