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Overcoming Nonce Reuse/Misuse: SIV Mode

Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

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We give away a little too much of our secrets, and often fail to protect one of our most important secret … our encryption keys. To overcome this we can use a method called key wrapping, and which protects the key. This is especially important where we transmit the key over untrusted channels or store them in places without strong access control. For a key wrapping, Rogaway et al proposed the SIV (Synthetic

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.