Jacob C. N. Schuldt

A New Combiner for Key Encapsulation Mechanisms

2019 · IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics Communications and Computer Sciences

Key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) combiners, recently formalized by Giacon, Heuer, and Poettering (PKC'18), enable hedging against insecure KEMs or weak parameter choices by combining ingredient KEMs into a single KEM that remains secure assuming just …