Crypto 2026 Paper: Key Committing Security of HCTR2, Revisited

The paper “Key Committing Security of HCTR2, Revisited” has been accepted at the Crypto 2026 conference. This is the longest-running cryptography conference, and has been held every year since 1981 in Santa Barbara, California, USA. This paper presents improved attacks and proofs for the key committing security of EtE-HCTR2, a robust authenticated encryption scheme constructed …