Bi-deniable public-encryption protocols based on standard PKI

Abstract

The paper proposes new deniable encryption protocols providing bi-deniability in the case of both the passive coercive attack and the active one. It is supposed the coercive adversary intercepts all data sent during the protocol. The protocols use no shared secret keys that are pre-agreed by parties of the protocol. Bi-deniability is based on computational indistinguishability between deniable encryption and probabilistic one. Significant merit of the proposed protocols is their using the standard public key infrastructure.

Keywords

• cryptographic protocol
• deniable encryption
• public encryption
• bi-deniability
• authentication
• digital signature
• fake message
• public key
• shared key
• public key infrastructure