Merkle Puzzles are Optimal

نویسندگان

  • Boaz Barak
  • Mohammad Mahmoody-Ghidary
چکیده

We prove that every key exchange protocol in the random oracle model in which the honest users make at most n queries to the oracle can be broken by an adversary making O(n) queries to the oracle. This improves on the previous Ω̃(n) query attack given by Impagliazzo and Rudich (STOC ’89). Our bound is optimal up to a constant factor since Merkle (CACM ’78) gave an n query key exchange protocol in this model that cannot be broken by an adversary making o(n) queries.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

دوره 2008  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2008