SubsidieMeestersGetting SYMmetric CryPtography Out of its Comfort ZONe
The SYMPZON project aims to innovate symmetric cryptography by developing new secure and efficient primitives over integer rings to enhance performance and security for emerging applications.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Our lives are profoundly affected by the digitization of data, and the amount of sensitive data that is shared on cloud storage grows considerably every day. Whenever sensitive data is collected, manipulated, exchanged, analyzed, and retained, symmetric cryptography is used.
Common Algorithms
The most commonly used and famous symmetric cryptography algorithms are AES and Keccak/SHA-3. Due to their importance, the entire research community focuses its attention on such schemes, with the result that the great majority of the symmetric primitives recently published resemble them.
Limitations of Current Approaches
While positive at first glance, the limits of this approach and of the current state of the art are appearing in several contexts:
- The similarity of such schemes has caused a performance flatness, with no substantial improvement recently achieved.
- Our understanding of their security has not fundamentally improved in the course of the last years, since their security arguments are still based on unverified and often false assumptions.
- The current bit-oriented schemes are not suitable for rising applications of practical importance such as:
- Format Preserving Encryption
- Multi-Party Computation
- Fully Homomorphic Encryption
- Zero-Knowledge
These applications naturally operate over prime fields and/or integer rings.
Proposed Solutions
The only way we can overcome these fundamental problems is by considering non-standard innovative approaches for designing secure and efficient symmetric primitives. Within the SYMPZON project, I plan to reshape the whole process of designing symmetric primitives by:
- Developing design strategies for defeating attacks against symmetric primitives that mainly operate over integer rings.
- Constructing new cryptographic components over integer rings that admit an efficient bit-representation.
This will lead to revolutionary symmetric primitives dedicated to targeting the rising number of applications operating over rings, with unprecedented security arguments and performances.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.499.309 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.499.309 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-2-2025 |
| Einddatum | 31-1-2030 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2025 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVENpenvoerder
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