A Black-Box Construction of Non-malleable Encryption from Semantically Secure Encryption

Seung Geol Choi, Dana Dachman-Soled, Tal Malkin, Hoeteck Wee
2017 Journal of Cryptology  
We show how to transform any semantically secure encryption scheme into a non-malleable one, with a black-box construction that achieves a quasi-linear blow-up in the size of the ciphertext. This improves upon the previous non-black-box construction of Pass, Shelat and Vaikuntanathan (Crypto '06). Our construction also extends readily to guarantee nonmalleability under a bounded-CCA2 attack, thereby simultaneously improving on both results in the work of Cramer et al. (Asiacrypt '07). Our
more » ... uction departs from the oft-used paradigm of re-encrypting the same message with different keys and then proving consistency of encryption. Instead, we encrypt an encoding of the message; the encoding is based on an error-correcting code with certain properties of reconstruction and secrecy from partial views, satisfied, e.g., by a Reed-Solomon code.
doi:10.1007/s00145-017-9254-z fatcat:bkvf747hdvauln3sjcqnq4yde4