Strong secrecy

Strong secrecy

Strong secrecy is a term used in cryptography. Bruno Blanchet provides the following definition:

:"Strong secrecy means that an adversary cannot see any difference when the value of the secret changes" [Blanchet, B. (2004) Automatic proof of strong secrecy for security protocols. In proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, pp 86-100. http://www.di.ens.fr/~blanchet/publications/BlanchetOakland04.html]

For example if a process encrypts a message "m" an attacker can differentiate between different messages, since their ciphertexts will be different. Thus "m" is not a strong secret. If however, probabilistic encryption were used "m" would be a strong secret. The randomness incorporated into the encryption algorithm will yield different ciphertexts for the same value of "m".

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