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We revisit the notions of robustness introduced by Abdalla, Bellare, and Neven (TCC 2010). One of the main motivations for the introduction of strong robustness for public-key encryption (PKE) by Abdalla et al. is to prevent certain types of attack on Sako’s auction protocol. We show, perhaps surprisingly, that Sako’s protocol is still vulnerable to attacks exploiting robustness problems in the underlying PKE scheme, even when it is instantiated with a strongly robust scheme. This demonstrates that current notions of robustness are insufficient even for one of its most natural applications. To address this and other limitations in existing notions, we introduce a series of new robustness notions for PKE and explore their relationships. In particular, we introduce complete robustness, our strongest new notion of robustness, and give a number of constructions for completely robust PKE schemes.
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Farshim, P., Libert, B., Paterson, K.G., Quaglia, E.A. (2013). Robust Encryption, Revisited. In: Kurosawa, K., Hanaoka, G. (eds) Public-Key Cryptography – PKC 2013. PKC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7778. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36362-7_22
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