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In cryptography, concrete security or exact security is a practice-oriented approach that aims to give more precise estimates of the computational power and time of the attackers tasks than asymptotic security would allow. It quantifies the security of a cryptosystem by bounding the probability of success for an adversary running for a fixed amount of time. Security proofs with precise analyses are referred to as concrete. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Concrete securityA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A Survey on the Security Challenges of Low-Power Wireless Communication Protocols for Communicating Concrete in Civil EngineeringsInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Practical Design of Reinforced Concrete BuildingsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: The Effectiveness of Abstract Versus Concrete Fear Appeals in Information SecurityCited 92 times
- Go sideways: Mihir BellareA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Ciphertext indistinguishabilityA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
The Effectiveness of Abstract Versus Concrete Fear Appeals in Information Security
Simplified security notions of direct anonymous attestation and a concrete scheme from pairings
Certificateless aggregate signcryption: Security model and a concrete construction secure in the random oracle model
Making Masking Security Proofs Concrete (Or How to Evaluate the Security of Any Leaking Device), Extended Version
Certificateless authenticated encryption with keyword search: Enhanced security model and a concrete construction for industrial IoT
Concrete Peace: Building Security through Infrastructure in Colombia
Materializing US Security: Guantanamo's Object Lessons and Concrete Messages
Revisiting the Concrete Security of Goldreich’s Pseudorandom Generator
🆕 Influential since 2022
A Survey on the Security Challenges of Low-Power Wireless Communication Protocols for Communicating Concrete in Civil Engineerings
Concrete Blocks, Bollards, and Ha‐ha Walls: How Rationales of the Security Industry Shape Our Cities
From Concrete to Code: A Survey of AI-Driven Transportation Infrastructure, Security, and Human Interaction
On the Concrete Security of LWE With Small Secret
Predicate encryption with selective-opening security for receivers: formal definition, generic construction, and concrete instantiations for several primitives
📚 Books worth reading
Practical Design of Reinforced Concrete BuildingsSyed Mehdi Ashraf · 2017
On Frank Lloyd Wright's Concrete AdobeDonald Leslie Johnson · 2013- 📕Advanced Materials and Techniques for Reinforced Concrete Structures, Second EditionMohamed Abdallah El-Reedy · 2015
Concrete evidence of the superiority of Security Portland cementSecurity Cement and Lime Company. · 1916
Principles of reinforced concrete designMete A. Sozen, Toshikatsu Ichinose, Santiago Pujol. · 2014- 📕Tashḳif hanpaḳah le-lo temurah, be-derekh shel zekhuyotProfiṭ taʻaśiyot beniyah be-ʻe.m. · 2003
- 📕ZnO bao mo zhi bei ji qi guang, dian xing neng yan jiuXingwen Zhu · 2010
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🔗 Related topics
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