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Generic Forward-Secure Key Agreement Without Signatures
September 4th, 2017
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    September 4th, 2017

Abstract. We present a generic, yet simple and efficient transformation to obtain a forward secure authenticated key exchange protocol from a two-move passively secure unauthenticated key agreement scheme (such as standard Diffie–Hellman or Frodo or NewHope). Our construction requires only an IND-CCA public key encryption scheme (such as RSA-OAEP or a method based on ring-LWE), and a message authentication code. Particularly relevant in the context of the state- of-the-art of postquantum secure primitives, we avoid the use of digital signature schemes: practical candidate post-quantum signature schemes are less accepted (and require more bandwidth) than candidate post-quantum public key encryption schemes. An additional feature of our proposal is that it helps avoid the bad prac- tice of using long term keys certified for encryption to produce digital signatures. We prove the security of our transformation in the random oracle model.

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