INT-RUP security of checksum-based authenticated encryption

Abstract

Offset codebook mode (OCB) provides neither integrity under releasing unverified plaintext (INT-RUP) nor nonce-misuse resistance. The tag of OCB is generated by encrypting a plaintext checksum, which is vulnerable in the INT-RUP security model. This paper focuses on the weakness of the checksum processing in OCB. We describe a new type of structure, called plaintext and ciphertext checksum (PCC), which is a generalization of the plaintext checksum, and prove that all authenticated encryption schemes with PCC are insecure in the INT-RUP security model. Then, we fix the weakness of PCC and present another new type of structure, called intermediate checksum (IC), to generate the authentication tag. To settle the INT-RUP security of OCB in the nonce-misuse setting, we provide a modified OCB scheme based on IC, called OCB-IC. OCB-IC is proven INT-RUP secure up to the birthday bound in the nonce-misuse setting if the underlying tweakable blockcipher is a secure mixed tweakable pseudorandom permutation (MTPRP). Finally, we present some discussions about OCB-IC.