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Padding oracle attacks against CBC mode encryption were introduced by Vaudenay. They are a powerful class of side-channel, plaintext recovering attacks which have been shown to work in practice against CBC mode when it is implemented in specific ways in software. In particular, padding oracle attacks have been demonstrated for certain implementations of SSL/TLS and IPsec. In this paper, we extend the theory of provable security for symmetric encryption to incorporate padding oracle attacks. We develop new security models and proofs for CBC mode (with padding) in the chosen-plaintext setting. These models show how to select padding schemes which provably provide a strong security notion (indistinguishability of encryptions) in the face of padding oracle attacks. We also show that an existing padding method, OZ-PAD, that is recommended for use with CBC mode in ISO/IEC 10116:2006, provably resists Vaudenay’s original attack, even though it does not attain our indistinguishability notion.
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Paterson, K.G., Watson, G.J. (2008). Immunising CBC Mode Against Padding Oracle Attacks: A Formal Security Treatment. In: Ostrovsky, R., De Prisco, R., Visconti, I. (eds) Security and Cryptography for Networks. SCN 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5229. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85855-3_23
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