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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Computer security 3 d iii Solution by
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For encrypt-and-authenticate, the transmitted pair is with . The recovery map is public, so any observer computesNo symmetric key, exhaustive key search or oracle is needed. Publishing this message-recovery digital signature reveals the entire plaintext and breaks cryptographic confidentiality outright. A digital signature of a suitable digest would have different leakage properties, but the printed construction signs the raw block.
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