Provable security. The goal of provable security is to verify rigorously the security of cryptographic systems. A provable security argument proceeds in three steps:

1. Define a security goal and an adversarial model;

2. Define the cryptographic system and the security assumptions upon which the security of the system hinges;

3. Show by reduction that any attack against the cryptographic system can be used to build an efficient algorithm that breaks a security assumption.

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In  11th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2012

Publisher  Springer

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