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  • Information-Theoretically Secure Aggregate Authentication Code: Model, Bounds, and Constructions
    Author(s)
    A. Kubai, J. Shikata, and Y. Watanabe
    Conference
    CD-ARES Workshop, MoCrySEn 2013
    Vol.
    LNCS 8128
    Pages
    16–28
    Publisher
    Springer
    Publication Year
    2013
    Date Presented
    Sep. 2–6, 2013
    Abstract

    In authentication schemes where many users send authenticated messages to a receiver, it is desirable to aggregate them into a single short authenticated message in order to reduce communication complexity. In this paper, in order to realize such a mechanism in information-theoretic security setting, we first propose aggregate authentication codes. Specifically, we newly propose a model and a security definition for aggregate authentication codes. We also show tight lower bounds on sizes of entities’ secret-keys and (aggregated) tags. Furthermore, we present optimal (i.e., most efficient) constructions for aggregate authentication codes.