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 International Journal of Applied Cryptography (3 papers in press) Regular Issues Efficient coding for secure computing with additively-homomorphic encrypted data   by Thijs Veugen Abstract: A framework is introduced for efficiently computing with encrypted data. We assume a semi-honest security model with two computing parties. Two different coding techniques are used with additively homomorphic encryption, such that many values can be put into one large encryption, and additions and multiplications can be performed on all values simultaneously. For more complicated operations such as comparisons and equality tests, bit-wise secret sharing is proposed as an additional technique that has a low computational and communication complexity, and which allows for precomputing. The framework is shown to significantly improve the computational complexity of state-of-the-art solutions on generic operations such as secure comparisons and secure set intersection. Keywords: packing; batching; homomorphic encryption; secure comparison; secure equality; secure set intersection; vector addition chain. Delegation-based conversion from CPA- to CCA-secure predicate encryption   by Mridul Nandi, Tapas Pandit Abstract: In 2011, Yamada et al. provided the generic delegation-based conversion and verifiability-based conversion from CPA- to CCA-secure attribute-based encryption (ABE). In 2012, Yamada et al. generalised the verifiability-based conversion from ABE (Yamada et al. 2011) to the predicate encryption (PE). In the aforementioned conversions, the decryption algorithm of the target CCA-secure PE scheme runs the decryption of the primitive CPA-secure PE scheme. In addition for verifiability-based conversions, the decryption algorithm of the target CCA-secure PE scheme has to perform the verifiability testing. We observe that for bilinear-pairing-based PE schemes, the cost of the verifiability testing is nearly equal to the cost of the CPA-decryption. So, the cost of CCA-decryption blows up to the double of the cost of CPA-decryption. Therefore, the conversion (CPA to CCA) based on delegation is mostly acceptable whenever the delegation-based conversion is available for the primitive PE scheme. In this paper, we investigate a generic delegation-based conversion from CPA- to CCA-secure predicate encryption schemes. Our conversion generalises the delegation-based conversion of Yamada et al., proposed in 2011, from ABE to PE. We show that our conversion captures many subclasses of PE, i.e., (hierarchical) inner-product encryption, (doubly-)spatial encryption and functional encryption for regular languages. Keywords: Predicate Encryption; Delegation; CPA to CCA Conversion. Dynamic MDS diffusion layers with efficient software implementation   by Mohammad Reza Mirzaee Shamsabad, S.M. Dehnavi Abstract: MDS (Maximum Distance Separable) matrices play a crucial role in symmetric ciphers as diffusion layers. Dynamic diffusion layers for software applications are less considered up to now. Dynamic (randomised) components could make symmetric ciphers more resistant against statistical and algebraic attacks. In this paper, after some theoretical investigation, we present a family of parametric $n \times n$ binary matrices $\mathcal{A}_\alpha$, $n=4t$, such that for $4^t$ many $\alpha \in \mathbb{F}_2^n$, the matrices $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha}$, $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha}^3 \oplus I$ and $\mathcal{A}_{\alpha}^7 \oplus I$ are non-singular. With the aid of the proposed family of matrices, some well-known diffusion layers, including the cyclic AES-like matrices and some recursive MDS diffusion layers could be made dynamic, at little extra cost in software. Then, we provide new families of MDS matrices which could be used as dynamic diffusion layers, using the proposed family of matrices. The implementation cost of every member in the presented families of MDS diffusion layers (except one cyclic family) is equal to its inverse. The proposed diffusion layers have a suitable implementation cost on a variety of modern processors. Keywords: MDS matrix; symmetric cipher; dynamic diffusion layer; branch number; software implementation.