Everything about Authenticated encryption

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Authenticated encryptionA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Dual-Server Public-Key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword SearchInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Recommendation for block cipher modes of operationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computersCited 1,551 times
5. Go sideways: Block cipher mode of operationA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: OCB modeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Using encryption for authentication in large networks of computers

  Roger M. Needham, Michael D. Schroeder · 1978 · Communications of the ACM · 1,551 citations

• Ascon v1.2: Lightweight Authenticated Encryption and Hashing

  Christoph Dobraunig, Maria Eichlseder, Florian Mendel · 2021 · Journal of Cryptology · 477 citations

• Authenticated encryption schemeswith low communication costs

  P. Horster, M. Michels, H. Petersen · 1994 · Electronics Letters · 105 citations

• Convertible authenticated encryption scheme

  Tzong-Sun Wu, Chien-Lung Hsu · 2002 · Journal of Systems and Software · 50 citations

• ISAP – Towards Side-Channel Secure Authenticated Encryption

  Christoph Dobraunig, Maria Eichlseder, Stefan Mangard · 2017 · IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology · 46 citations

• Pairing-free certificateless authenticated encryption with keyword search

  Danial Shiraly, Nasrollah Pakniat, Mahnaz Noroozi · 2022 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 43 citations

• Authenticated Encryption Schemes: A Systematic Review

  Mohamud Ahmed Jimale, Muhammad Reza Z'aba, Miss Laiha Binti Mat Kiah · 2022 · IEEE Access · 40 citations

• S6AE: Securing 6LoWPAN Using Authenticated Encryption Scheme

  Muhammad Tanveer, Ghulam Abbas, Ziaul Haq Abbas · 2020 · Sensors · 36 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Dual-Server Public-Key Authenticated Encryption with Keyword Search

  Biwen Chen, Libing Wu, Sherali Zeadally · 2022 · IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing · 36 citations

• A more efficient public-key authenticated encryption scheme with keyword search

  Qiong Huang, Peisen Huang, Hongbo Li · 2023 · Journal of Systems Architecture · 30 citations

• A Medical Image Encryption Scheme for Secure Fingerprint-Based Authenticated Transmission

  Francesco Castro, Donato Impedovo, Giuseppe Pirlo · 2023 · Applied Sciences · 29 citations

• QPASE: Quantum-Resistant Password-Authenticated Searchable Encryption for Cloud Storage

  Jingwei Jiang, Ding Wang · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 24 citations

• Lightweight Multi-User Public-Key Authenticated Encryption With Keyword Search

  Yongliang Xu, Hang Cheng, Jiguo Li · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security · 24 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Recommendation for block cipher modes of operationMorris Dworkin · 2007
• Information Security and PrivacyYi Mu · 2003
• Do you know who you are doing business with?United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Technology. · 1998
• Information Security And Cryptology 4th International Conference Inscrypt 2008 Beijing China December 1417 2008 Revised Selected PapersPeng Liu · 2009
• Mobile Authentication Problems And SolutionsMarkus Jakobsson · 2012
• Secure Data Management 6th Vldb Workshop Sdm 2009 Lyon France August 28 2009 ProceedingsWillem Jonker · 2009
• Information Security and Cryptology – ICISC 2008Hutchison, David - undifferentiated · 2009

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