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-Provable security is a subfield of cryptography where constructions are proven secure with regards to a security model.
+Provable security is a subfield of cryptography where constructions are proven secure with respect to a security model.
 To illustrate this notion, let us take the example of public-key encryption schemes.
 This primitive consists in three algorithms:~\textit{key generation}, \textit{encryption} and \textit{decryption}.
 These algorithms acts according to their names.
-Naturally, the question of ``how to define the security of this set of algorithms'' rises.
+Naturally, the question of ``how to define the security of this set of algorithms'' arises.
 To answer this question, we have to define the power of the adversary, and its goal.
-In cryptography, many ways have been used to define this (random oracle model, universal composability ($\UC$)~\cite{Can01}\ldots) which give rise to stronger security guarantees.
+In cryptography, many approaches have been used to define this (random oracle model, universal composability ($\UC$)~\cite{Can01}\ldots) which give rise to stronger security guarantees.
-If one may look for the strongest security for its construction, there are known impossibility results in strong models.
+If one aims at the strongest security for its construction, there are known impossibility results in strong models.
-For instance, in the $\UC$ model, it is impossible to realize two-party computation~\cite{Yao86} without honest set-up~\cite{CKL06}, while it is possible in the standard model~\cite{LP07}.
+For instance, in the $\UC$ model, it is impossible to realize two-party computation~\cite{Yao86} without trusted setup~\cite{CKL06}, while it is possible in the plain model~\cite{LP07}.
 
 In this chapter, we will focus on the computational complexity elements we need to define properly the security models we will use in this thesis.
 Then we will define these security models.
@@ -17,39 +17,39 @@ Then we will define these security models.
 \section{Security Reductions}
 \addcontentsline{tof}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection} Réductions de sécurité}
 
-Provable security  providing constructions for which the security is guaranteed by a security proof, or \emph{security reduction}.
+Provable security provides constructions for which security is guaranteed by a security proof, or \emph{security reduction}.
 The name ``reduction'' comes from computational complexity.
-In this field of computer science, research focuses on defining equivalence classes for problems, based on the necessary amount of resources to solve them.
+In this field of computer science, research focuses on defining equivalence classes for problems or hierarchical relations between them, based on the necessary amount of resources to solve them.
-In order to define lower bound for the complexity of some problems, a classical way of doing this is to provide a construction that goes from an instance of a problem $A$ to an instance of problem $B$ such that if a solution of $B$ is found, then so is a solution of $A$ as well.
+In order to define lower bounds for the complexity of some problems, a classical approach is to provide a construction that goes from an instance of a problem $A$ to an instance of problem $B$ such that, if a solution of $B$ is found, then so is a solution of $A$.
-This amounts to say that problem $B$ is at least as hard as problem $A$ up to the complexity of the transformation.
+This amounts to saying that problem $B$ is at least as hard as problem $A$ up to the complexity of the transformation.
-For instance, Cook shown that satisfiability of Boolean formulas is at least as hard as every problem in $\NP$~\cite{Coo71} up to a polynomial-time transformation.
+For instance, Cook has shown that satisfiability of Boolean formulas is at least as hard as every problem in $\NP$~\cite{Coo71} up to a polynomial-time transformation.
 
 Let us now define more formally the notions of reduction and computability using the computational model of Turing machines.
 
 \begin{definition}[Turing Machine] \label{de:turing-machine} \index{Turing machine}
   A $k$-tape Turing Machine (TM) is described by a triple $M = (\Gamma, Q, \delta)$ containing:
   \begin{itemize}
-    \item A finite set $\Gamma$, called the \textit{tape alphabet}, that contains symbols that the TM uses in its tapes. In particular, $\Gamma$ contains a \textit{blank symbol} ``$\square$'', and ``$\triangleright$'' that denotes the beginning of a tape.
+    \item A finite set $\Gamma$, called the \textit{tape alphabet}, which contains symbols that the TM uses in its tapes. In particular, $\Gamma$ contains a \textit{blank symbol} ``$\square$'', and ``$\triangleright$'' that denotes the beginning of a tape.
     \item A finite set $Q$ called the \textit{states} of the TM. It contains special states $q_{start}$, $q_{halt}$, called respectively the \textit{initial state} and the \textit{halt state}.
     \item A function $\delta: (Q \backslash \{q_{halt}\}) \times \Gamma^{k-1} \to Q \times \Gamma^{k-1} \times \{ \leftarrow, \downarrow, \rightarrow \}^k$, called the \textit{transition function}, that describes the behaviour of the internal state of the machine and the TM heads.\\
       \smallskip
-      Namely, $\delta(q, a_1, \ldots, a_{k-1}) = (r, b_2, \ldots, b_k, m_1, \ldots, m_k)$ means that upon reading symbols $(a_1, \ldots, a_{k-1})$ on tapes $1$ to $k-1$ (where the first tape is the input tape, and the $k$-th tape is the output tape) on state $q$, the TM will move to state $r$, write $b_2, \ldots, b_k$ on tapes $2$ to $k$ and move its heads according to $m_1, \ldots, m_k$.
+      Namely, $\delta(q, a_1, \ldots, a_{k-1}) = (r, b_2, \ldots, b_k, m_1, \ldots, m_k)$ means that upon reading symbols $(a_1, \ldots, a_{k-1})$ on tapes $1$ to $k-1$ (where the first tape is the input tape, and the $k$-th tape is the output tape) on state $q$, the TM will move to state $r$, write $b_2, \ldots, b_k$ on tapes $2$ to $k$ and move its heads as dictated by $m_1, \ldots, m_k$.
   \end{itemize}
 
-  A TM $M$ is said to \emph{compute} a function $f: \Sigma^\star \to \Gamma^\star$, if for any finite input $x \in \Sigma^\star$ on tape $T_1$, blank tapes $T_2, \ldots, T_k$ with a beginning symbol $\triangleright$ and initial state $q_{start}$, $M$ halts in a finite number of steps with $f(x)$ written on its output tape $T_k$.
+  A TM $M$ is said to \emph{compute} a function $f: \Sigma^\star \to \Gamma^\star$ if, for any finite input $x \in \Sigma^\star$ on tape $T_1$, blank tapes $T_2, \ldots, T_k$ with a beginning symbol $\triangleright$ and initial state $q_{start}$, $M$ halts in a finite number of steps with $f(x)$ written on its output tape $T_k$.
 
-  A TM $M$ is said to \emph{recognize} a language $L \subseteq \Sigma^\star$ if on a finite input $x \in \Sigma^\star$ written on its input tape $T_1$, blank tapes $T_2, \ldots, T_k$ with a beginning symbol $\triangleright$ and initial state $q_{start}$, the machine $M$ eventually ends on the state $q_{halt}$ with $1$ written on its output tape if and only if $x \in L$.
+  A TM $M$ is said to \emph{recognize} a language $L \subseteq \Sigma^\star$ if, on a finite input $x \in \Sigma^\star$ written on its input tape $T_1$, blank tapes $T_2, \ldots, T_k$ with a beginning symbol $\triangleright$ and initial state $q_{start}$, the machine $M$ eventually ends on the state $q_{halt}$ with $1$ written on its output tape if and only if $x \in L$.
 
   A TM $M$ is said to run in $T(n)$-time if, on any input $x$, it eventually stops within $T(|x|)$ steps.
 
-  A TM $M$ is said to run in $S(n)$-space if, on any input $x$, it eventually stops and had write at most $S(|x|)$ memory cells in its working tapes.
+  A TM $M$ is said to run in $S(n)$-space if, on any input $x$, it eventually stops after having written at most $S(|x|)$ memory cells in its working tapes.
 \end{definition}
 
-Turing machines are a computational model that proved useful in complexity theory as it is convenient to evaluate the running time of a Turing machine, which amounts to bound the number of steps the machine can make.
+Turing machines are a computational model that proved useful in complexity theory as it is convenient to evaluate the running time of a Turing machine, which amounts to bounding the number of steps the machine can take.
-Similarly, the working tapes works analogously to the memory of a program, and then counting the number of cells the machine uses is equivalent to evaluate the amount of memory the program requires.
+Similarly, the working tapes works analogously to the memory of a program, and then counting the number of cells the machine uses is equivalent to evaluating the amount of memory the program requires.
 
 From these considerations, it is possible to describe the time and space complexity of a program from the definition of Turing machines.
-In our context, we will work with Turing machine that runs in polynomial-time and space, as polynomials benefit from good stability properties (sum, product, composition, \ldots{}).
+In our context, we will work with Turing machines that run in polynomial-time and space, as polynomials benefit from good stability properties (sum, product, composition, \ldots{}).
 
 \begin{definition}[\textsf{P}~\cite{Rab60}] \index{Complexity classes!P@\textsf{P}}
   The class \textsf{P} describes the set of languages that can be recognized by a Turing machine running in time $T(n) = \bigO(\poly)$.
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ In this context, it is reasonable to consider the computational power of an adve
 As cryptographic algorithms are not deterministic, we also have to consider the probabilistic version of the computation model.
 
 \begin{definition}[Probabilistic Turing machine] \label{de:probabilistic-tm} \index{Turing machine!Probabilistic Turing machine}
-  A \emph{probabilistic Turing machine} is a Turing machine with two different transition functions $\delta_0$ and $\delta_1$, where at each step, a random coin is tossed to pick $\delta_0$ or $\delta_1$ with probability $1/2$ independently of all the previous choices.
+  A \emph{probabilistic Turing machine} is a Turing machine with two different transition functions $\delta_0$ and $\delta_1$ where, at each step, a random coin is tossed to pick $\delta_0$ or $\delta_1$ with probability $1/2$ independently of all the previous choices.
 
   The machine only outputs \texttt{accept} and \texttt{reject} depending on the content of the output tape at the end of the execution.
   We denote by $M(x)$ the random variable corresponding to the value $M$ writes on its output tape at the end of its execution.
@@ -71,14 +71,14 @@ As cryptographic algorithms are not deterministic, we also have to consider the
   The class \textsf{PP} describes the set of languages $L \subseteq \Sigma^\star$ that a Turing machine $M$ recognizes such that the TM $M$ stops in time $\poly[|x|]$ on every input $x$ and
   \[ \begin{cases}
       \Pr\left[ M(x) = 1 \mid x \in L \right] > \frac12\\
-      \Pr\left[ M(x) = 0 \mid x \notin L \right] > \frac12
+      \Pr\left[ M(x) = 0 \mid x \notin L \right] \leq \frac12
   \end{cases}. \]
 
   In the following $\ppt$ stands for ``probabilistic polynomial time''.
 \end{definition}
 
-We defined complexity classes that corresponds to natural sets of programs that are of interest for us, but now how to work with it?
+We defined complexity classes that corresponds to natural sets of programs that are of interest to us.
-That's why we'll now define the principle of polynomial time reduction.
+In order to work with them, we will define the principle of polynomial time reduction.
 
 \begin{definition}[Polynomial time reduction] \label{de:pt-reduction} \index{Reduction!Polynomial time}
   A language $A \subseteq \bit^\star$ is \emph{polynomial-time reducible to} a language $B \subseteq \bit^\star$, denoted by $A \redto B$, if there is a \emph{polynomial-time computable} function $f: \bit^\star \to \bit^\star$ such that for every $x \in \bit^\star$, $x \in A$ if and only if $f(x) \in B$.
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ That's why we'll now define the principle of polynomial time reduction.
 In other words, a polynomial reduction from $A$ to $B$ is the description of a polynomial time algorithm (also called ``\emph{the reduction}''), that uses an algorithm for $B$ in a black-box manner to solve $A$.
 This is illustrated in Figure~\ref{fig:poly-reduction}.
 
-To write down that a TM has black-box access to a TM $M_O$ that computes function $O$, we sometimes use the \textit{oracle} terminology.
+To write down that a TM has black-box access to a TM $M^O$ that computes function $O$, we sometimes use the \textit{oracle} terminology.
 
 \begin{definition}[Oracle machine] \index{Turing machine!Oracle machine}
   A Turing Machine $M$ is said to have \textit{oracle access} to a function $O(\cdot)$ if it has access to the result of $O(x)$ for any input $x$ of its choice in constant time. We denote the output of $M$ on input $x$ with oracle $O$ by $M^O(x)$.
@@ -114,23 +114,24 @@ an attack is successful if the probability that it succeed is noticeable.
   Finally, if $f = 1- \negl[n]$, $f$ is said to be \emph{overwhelming}.
 \end{definition}
 
-Once we defined these notions related to the core of the proof, we have to define the objects on what we work on.
+Now, we have to define two more notions to be able to work on security proofs.
-Namely, defining \textit{what we want to prove}, and the hypotheses on which we rely, also called ``\textit{hardness assumptions}''.
+Namely, the \textit{security notions} and the \textit{hardness assumptions}.
-\index{Hardness assumptions}
+The former are the statements we need to prove, and the latter are the hypotheses on which we rely.
+\index{Hardness assumptions} \index{Security notions}
 
 The details of the hardness assumptions we use are given in Chapter~\ref{ch:structures}.
 Nevertheless, some notions are common to these and are evoked here.
 
 The confidence one can put in a hardness assumption depends on many criteria.
 
-First of all, a weaker assumption is preferred to a stronger one if it is possible.
+First of all, a weaker assumption is preferred to a stronger one.
 To illustrate this, let us consider the two following assumptions:
 
 \begin{definition}[Discrete logarithm] \label{de:DLP}
   \index{Discrete Logarithm!Assumption}
   \index{Discrete Logarithm!Problem}
   The \emph{discrete algorithm problem} is defined as follows. Let $(\GG, \cdot)$ be a cyclic group of order $p$.
-  Given $g,h \in \GG$, the goal is to find an integer $a \in \Zp^{}$ such that: $g^a_{} = h$.
+  Given $g,h \in \GG$, the goal is to find the integer $a \in \Zp^{}$ such that: $g^a_{} = h$.
 
   The \textit{discrete logarithm assumption} is the intractability of this problem for any \ppt{} algorithm with noticeable probability.
 \end{definition}
@@ -144,61 +145,61 @@ To illustrate this, let us consider the two following assumptions:
 \end{restatable}
 
 The discrete logarithm assumption is implied by the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption for instance.
-Indeed, if one is able to solve the discrete logarithm problem, then it suffices to compute the discrete logarithm of $g_1$, let us say $\alpha$, and then check whether $g_2^\alpha = g_3^{}$ or not.
 This is why it is preferable to work with the discrete logarithm assumption if it is possible.
 For instance, there is no security proofs for the El Gamal encryption scheme from DLP.
 
-Another criterion to evaluate the security of an assumption is to look if the assumption is ``simple'' or not.
+Another criterion to evaluate the security of an assumption is to look if the assumption is ``simple to state'' or not.
+This observation is buttressed by the statement of~\cite[p.25]{KL07}:~``\ldots\textit{there  is  a  general  preference  for  assumptions  that are simpler to state, since such assumptions are easier to study and to refute.}''.
+
 It is harder to evaluate the security of an assumption as $q$-Strong Diffie-Hellman, which is a variant of $\DDH$ where the adversary is given the tuple $(g, g^a_{}, g^{a^2}_{}, \ldots, g^{a^q}_{})$ and has to devise $g^{a^{q+1}}$.
 The security of this assumption inherently depends on the parameter $q$ of the assumption.
-And Cheon proved that for large values of $q$, this assumption is no more trustworthy~\cite{Che06}.
+Cheon also proved that for large values of $q$, this assumption is no more trustworthy~\cite{Che06}.
 These parameterized assumptions are called \emph{$q$-type assumptions}.
-There are also other kind of non-static assumptions, such as interactive assumptions.
+There also exist other kinds of non-static assumptions, such as interactive assumptions.
 An example can be the ``\emph{$1$-more-\textsf{DL}}'' assumption.
 Given oracle access to $n$ discrete logarithm queries ($n$ is not known in advance), the $1$-more-\textsf{DL} problem is to solve a $n+1$-th discrete logarithm.
-
+These non-interactive assumptions are furthermore \textit{non-falsifiable} according to the definition of Naor~\cite{Nao03}.
 Non-interactive and constant-size assumptions are sometimes called ``\textit{standard}''.
 
-The next step to study in a security proof is the \emph{security model}.
+The next important aspect of a security proof is the model in which it takes place.
-In other words, the context in which the proofs are made.
+This is the purpose of the next section.
-This is the topic of the next section.
 
 \section{Random-Oracle Model and Standard Model} \label{se:models}
 \addcontentsline{tof}{section}{\protect\numberline{\thesection} Modèle de l'oracle aléatoire et modèle standard}
 
-The most general model to do security proofs is the \textit{standard model}.
+Security proofs should preferably stand in the \textit{standard model} of computation, where no idealization is assumed on behalf of the building blocks.
-In this model, nothing special is assumed, and every assumptions are explicit.
+In this model, no implicit assumptions are assumed.
 
 For instance, cryptographic hash functions enjoy several different associated security notions~\cite{KL07}.
-The weakest is the collision resistance, that states that it is intractable to find two strings that maps to the same digest.
+On of the weakest is the collision resistance, that states that it is intractable to find two strings that map to the same digest.
-A stronger notion is the second pre-image resistance, that states that given $x \in \bit^\star_{}$, it is not possible for a $\ppt$ algorithm to find $\tilde{x} \in \bit^\star_{}$ such that $h(x) = h(\tilde{x})$.
+A stronger notion is the second pre-image resistance, that states that given $x \in \bit^\star_{}$, it is not possible for a $\ppt$ algorithm to find an $\tilde{x} \in \bit^\star_{}$ such that $h(x) = h(\tilde{x})$.
 Similarly to what we saw in the previous section about $\DDH$ and $\DLP$, we can see that collision resistance implies second pre-image resistance.
-Indeed, if there is an attacker against second pre-image, then one can choose a string $x \in \bit^\star_{}$ and obtains from this attacker another string $\tilde{x} \neq x \in \bit^\star_{}$ such that $h(x) = h(\tilde{x})$. So a hash function that is collision resistant is also second pre-image resistant.
+Indeed, if there is an attacker against second pre-image, then one can choose a string $x \in \bit^\star_{}$ and obtains from this attacker another string $\tilde{x} \neq x \in \bit^\star_{}$ such that $h(x) = h(\tilde{x})$. Hence, a hash function that is collision resistant is also second pre-image resistant.
 
 \index{Random Oracle Model}
 The \textit{random oracle model}~\cite{FS86,BR93}, or \ROM, is an idealized security model where hash functions are assumed to behave as a truly random function.
-This implies collision resistance (if the codomain of the hash function is large enough, which should be the case for a cryptographic hash function) and other security notions related to hash functions.
+This implies collision resistance (if the codomain of the hash function is large enough) and other security notions related to hash functions.
-In this model, hash function access are managed as oracle access (which then can be reprogrammed by the reduction).
+In this model, hash functions are modeled as oracles in the view of the adversary.
+These oracles are controlled by the reduction, meaning that the reduction can program the hash function as it likes as long as the responses look random and independent.
+Moreover, the reduction has access to the conversation between the adversary and the random oracle. It thus eventually knows all inputs for which the adversary chose to evaluate the function.
 
-We can notice that this security model is unrealistic~\cite{CGH04}. Let us construct a \emph{counter-example}.
+We can notice that this computation model is unrealistic~\cite{CGH98}. Let us construct a \emph{counter-example}.
 Let $\Sigma$ be a secure signature scheme, and let $\Sigma_y^{}$ be the scheme that returns $\Sigma(m)$ as a signature if and only if $h(0) \neq y$ and $0$ as a signature otherwise.
 In the \ROM $h$ behaves as a random function.
 Hence, the probability that $h(0) = y$ is negligible with respect to the security parameter for any fixed $y$.
-On the other hand, it appears that when $h$ is instantiated with a real world hash function, then $\Sigma_{h(0)}$ is the null function, and therefore completely insecure as a signature scheme. \hfill $\square$
+On the other hand, it appears that when $h$ is instantiated with a real-world hash function, then $\Sigma_{h(0)}$ is the null function, and therefore completely insecure as a signature scheme. \hfill $\square$
 
 In this context, one may wonder why is the \ROM still used in cryptographic proofs~\cite{LMPY16,LLM+16}.
 One reason is that some constructions are not known to exist yet from the standard model.
-One example is non-interactive zero-knowledge (\NIZK) proofs from lattice assumptions~\cite{Ste96,Lyu08}.
+For instance, non-interactive zero-knowledge (\NIZK) proofs for all $\NP$ languages is not known to follow solely from lattice assumptions~\cite{Ste96,Lyu08}.
-\NIZK proofs form an elementary building block for privacy-based cryptography, and forbid the use of the \ROM may slow down research in this direction~\cite{LLM+16}.
+\NIZK proofs form an elementary building block for privacy-based cryptography. In the lattice setting, we do not have much better options that using random oracles~\cite{LLM+16}.
-Another reason to use the \ROM in cryptography, is that it is a sufficient guarantee in real-world cryptography~\cite{BR93}.
+Another reason to use the \ROM in cryptography, is because it enables much more efficient constructions and we have no example of a failure in the random oracle methodology for a natural cryptographic construction~\cite{BR93}.
-The example we built earlier is artificial, and in practice there is no known attacks against the \ROM.
+The example we built earlier is artificial, and in practice there is no known attacks against the \ROM for a natural scheme used in real-life applications.
-This consequence comes also from the fact that the \ROM is implied by the standard model.
+Thus, for practical purposes, constructions in the \ROM are usually more efficient.
-As a consequence, constructions in the \ROM are at least as efficient as in the standard model.
+For instance, the scheme we present in Chapter~\ref{ch:sigmasig} adapts the construction of dynamic group signature in the standard model from Libert, Peters and Yung~\cite{LPY15} to the \ROM.
-Thus, for practical purpose, constructions in the \ROM are usually more efficient.
+Doing this transform reduces the signature size from $32$ elements in $\GG$, $14$ elements in $\Gh$ and \textit{one} scalar in the standard model~\cite[App. J]{LPY15} down to $7$ elements in $\GG$ and $3$ scalars in the \ROM.
-For instance, the scheme we present in Chapter~\ref{ch:sigmasig} adapts the construction of dynamic group signature in the standard model from Libert, Peters and Yung~\cite{LPY15} in the \ROM.
-Doing this transform reduces the signature size from $32$ elements in $\GG$, $14$ elements in $\Gh$ and \textit{one} scalars in the standard model~\cite[App. J]{LPY15} down to $7$ elements in $\GG$ and $3$ scalars in the \ROM.
 
-We now have defined the security structure on which we are working on and the basic tools that allows security proofs.
+We now have defined the context we are working on and the base tools that allows security proofs.
 The following section explains how to define the security of a cryptographic primitive.
 
 \section{Security Games and Simulation-Based Security} \label{se:games-sim}