Network Working Group F. Günther Internet-Draft IBM Research Europe - Zurich Intended status: Informational D. Stebila Expires: 4 January 2027 University of Waterloo S. Veitch ETH Zurich 3 July 2026 Kemeleon Encodings draft-irtf-cfrg-kemeleon-02 Abstract This document specifies Kemeleon encoding algorithms for encoding ML- KEM encapsulation keys and ciphertexts as random bytestrings. Kemeleon encodings provide obfuscation of encapsulation keys and ciphertexts, relying on module LWE assumptions. About This Document This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC. The latest revision of this draft can be found at https://ssveitch.github.io/draft-kemeleon/draft-irtf-cfrg- kemeleon.html. Status information for this document may be found at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-cfrg-kemeleon/. Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at https://github.com/ssveitch/draft-kemeleon. 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This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Notation / ML-KEM Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Kemeleon Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4.1. Common Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2. Encoding Encapsulation Keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.3. Encoding Ciphertexts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.4. Summary of Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Additional Considerations for Applications . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1. Smaller Outputs from Rejection Sampling . . . . . . . . . 8 5.1.1. Helper Functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 5.1.2. Compressing Encapsulation Keys without Rejection Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.2. Deterministic Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.3. Relation to Hash-to-Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 5.4. Modifying ML-KEM Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.1. Computational Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 6.2. Randomness Sampling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 6.3. Timing Side-Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1. Introduction ML-KEM [FIPS203] is a post-quantum key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) recently standardized by NIST, Many applications are transitioning from classical Diffie-Hellman (DH) based solutions to constructions based on ML-KEM. The use of Elligator and related Hash-to-Curve [RFC9380] algorithms are ubiquitous in DH-based protocols where DH shares are required to be encoded as, and look indistinguishable Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 from, random bytestrings. For example, applications using Elligator include protocols used for censorship circumvention in Tor [OBFS4], password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE) protocols [CPACE] [OPAQUE], and private set intersection (PSI) [ECDH-PSI]. For the post-quantum transition, an analogous encoding for (ML-)KEM encapsulation keys and ciphertexts to random bytestrings is required. This document specifies such an encoding, Kemeleon, for ML-KEM encapsulation keys and ciphertexts. Kemeleon was introduced in [GSV24] for building an (post-quantum) "obfuscated" KEM whose encapsulation keys and ciphertexts are indistinguishable from random. This document specifies a version of the Kemeleon encoding that avoids any failure probability, as well as an alternate version that trades some failure probability for smaller encoding size. 2. Conventions and Definitions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. 3. Notation / ML-KEM Background A KEM consists of three algorithms: * KeyGen() -> (ek, dk): A probabilistic key generation algorithm that, with no input, generates an encapsulation key ek and a decapsulation key dk. * Encaps(ek) -> (c, K): A probabilistic encapsulation algorithm that takes as input an encapsulation key ek, and outputs a ciphertext ct and shared secret K. * Decaps(dk, c) -> K: A decapsulation algorithm that takes as input a decapsulation key dk and ciphertext c, and outputs a shared secret K. The following variables and functions are adopted from [FIPS203]: * q = 3329, n = 256 * Compress_d : x -> round((2^d/q)*x) mod 2^d (Equation 4.7 [FIPS203]) * Decompress_d : y -> round((q/2^d)*y) (Equation 4.8 [FIPS203]) Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 * k = 2 for ML-KEM-512, k = 3 for ML-KEM-768, k = 4 for ML-KEM-1024 * remaining parameters d_u, d_v, etc. are defined by the respective ML-KEM parameter set (Table 2 [FIPS203]) -- this document writes du and dv in place of d_u, d_v in pseudocode ML-KEM.KeyGen() (Section 7.1 [FIPS203]) produces an encapsulation key, ek and a decapsulation key, dk. Encapsulation keys consist of byte-encoded vectors of coefficients in Z_q, where each coefficient is encoded in 12 bits, together with a 32-byte seed for generating the matrix A. ML-KEM.Encaps(ek) (Section 7.2 [FIPS203]) produces ciphertexts consisting of byte-encoded compressed vectors of cofficients, where each coefficient in Z_q is compressed by a certain number of bits (depending on the ML-KEM parameter set). The following terms and notation are used throughout this document: * a[i] denotes the ith position of a vector a of coefficients * concat(x0, ..., xN): returns the concatenation of bytestrings. 4. Kemeleon Encoding At a high level, the constructions in this document instantiate the following functions: * EncodeEk(ek) -> eek is the (possibly randomized) encoding algorithm that on input an encapsulation key, outputs an obfuscated encapsulation key or an error. * DecodeEk(eek) -> ek is the deterministic decoding algorithm that on input an obfuscated encapsulation key, outputs an encapsulation key. * EncodeCtxt(c) -> ec is the (possibly randomized) encoding algorithm that on input a ciphertext, outputs an obfuscated ciphertext or an error. * DecodeCtxt(ec) -> c is the deterministic decoding algorithm that on input an obfuscated ciphertext, outputs a ciphertext. Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 4.1. Common Functions The following function VectorEncode maps a vector of length n of coefficients modulo q to a large integer r such that r is byte- aligned and (statistically close to) uniformly distributed. VectorEncode first accumulates the coefficients into a large integer r and then, applying the technique from [ELL2], adds m * q^n, where m is chosen at random from [0,floor((2^3072-r)/(q^n))]. This results in an encoded output value byte-aligned to 384 bytes (the same size as the standard ML-KEM vector encoding) whose statistical distance from uniform is at most 2^-76. VectorEncode(a): r = 0 t = 76 # stat. distance from uniform and byte-aligned b = 2996 # ceil(n*log2(q)) for i from 1 to n: r += q^(i-1)*a[i] m <--$ [0,...,floor((2^(b+t)-r)/(q^(n)))] r = r + m*q^n return r The following function VectorDecode inverts the above mapping. VectorDecode(r): r = r % q^n for i from 1 to n: a[i] = r % q r = r // q return a The following algorithm SamplePreimage samples an uncompressed pre- image of a coefficient c at random, where u is the decompressed value of c. It must take as input values of u that are output from Decompress_d. The mapping is based on the Compress_d, Decompress_d algorithms from (Section 4.2.1 [FIPS203]). Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 SamplePreimage(d,u,c): if d == 10: if Compress_d(u + 2) == c: rand <--$ [-1,0,1,2] else if Compress_d(u - 2) == c: rand <--$ [-2,-1,0,1] else: rand <--$ [-1,0,1] return u + rand if d == 11: if Compress_d(u + 1) == c: rand <--$ [0,1] else if Compress_d(u - 1) == c: rand <--$ [-1,0] else: rand = 0 return u + rand if d == 5: if u == 0: rand <--$ [-52,...,52] else if u <= 1560: rand <--$ [-51,...,52] else: rand <--$ [-52,...,51] return u + rand if d == 4: if u == 0: rand <--$ [-104,...,104] else if u <= 1456: rand <--$ [-103,...,104] else: rand <--$ [-104,...,103] return u + rand else: return err 4.2. Encoding Encapsulation Keys The following algorithms encode ML-KEM encapsulation keys as random bytestrings. rho is the public seed used to generate the public matrix A [FIPS203]. This is already a random 32-byte string, so it is returned alongside the encoded value of t. t is a vector of k polynomials with n coefficients. We treat each polynomial in t as a vector of n coefficient, for which we apply VectorEncode. From this, we obtain k values that are then concatenated. Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 Kemeleon.EncodeEk(ek = (t, rho)): for i in range(k): r_i = VectorEncode(t[i]) r = concat(r_1,...,r_k) return concat(r,rho) Kemeleon.DecodeEk(eek): r_1,..,r_k,rho = eek # rho and each r_i is fixed length t = [] for i in range(k): t_i = VectorDecode(r_i) t.append(t_i) return (t, rho) 4.3. Encoding Ciphertexts ML-KEM ciphertexts consist of two components: c_1, a vector of k polynomials with n coefficients mod 2^du, and c_2, a polynomial with n coefficients mod 2^dv. The coefficients of these polynomials are not uniformly distributed, as a result of the compression step in encapsulation. The following encoding function decompresses and recovers a random preimage of this compression step in order to recover the uniform distribution of coefficients. Then, the same vector encoding step used for encapsulation keys can be applied. Kemeleon.EncodeCtxt(c = (c_1,c_2)): u = Decompress_du(c_1) for i from 1 to k*n: u[i] = SamplePreimage(du,u[i],c_1[i]) v = Decompress_dv(c_2) for i from 1 to n: v[i] = SamplePreimage(dv,v[i],c_2[i]) for i in range(k) r_i = VectorEncode(u[i]) r_(k+1) = VectorEncode(v) r = concat(r_0,...,r_(k+1)) return r Kemeleon.DecodeCtxt(r): r_0,...,r_(k+1) = r # each r_i is fixed length for i in range(k): u[i] = VectorDecode(r_i) v = VectorDecode(r_(k+1)) c_1 = Compress_du(u) c_2 = Compress_dv(v) return (c_1,c_2) Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 4.4. Summary of Properties +=======================+=====================+=====================+ | Algorithm / Parameter | Output size (bytes) | Success | | | | probability | +=======================+=====================+=====================+ | Kemeleon - ML-KEM-512 | ek: 800, ctxt: 1152 | ek: 1.00, | | | | ctxt: 1.00 | +-----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | Kemeleon - ML-KEM-768 | ek: 1184, ctxt: | ek: 1.00, | | | 1536 | ctxt: 1.00 | +-----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ | Kemeleon - ML- | ek: 1568, ctxt: | ek: 1.00, | | KEM-1024 | 1920 | ctxt: 1.00 | +-----------------------+---------------------+---------------------+ Table 1: Summary of Kemeleon Properties 5. Additional Considerations for Applications This section contains additional considerations and comments related to using Kemeleon encodings in different applications. 5.1. Smaller Outputs from Rejection Sampling In applications willing to incur some probability of failure in encoding, the following variant of the encoding algorithms that result in smaller output sizes for encapsulation keys and ciphertexts can be used. The following algorithms make use of helper functions in Section 5.1.1. The encoding algorithms for encapsulation keys should handle errors accordingly, returning an error if VectorEncodeR returns an error. Kemeleon.EncodeEkR(ek = (t, rho)): r = VectorEncodeR(t) return concat(r,rho) Kemeleon.DecodeEkR(eek): r,rho = eek # rho and each r_i is fixed length t = VectorDecodeR(r) return (t, rho) For ciphertexts, the second ciphertext component need not be decompressed, and rejection sampling can be used to retain uniformity instead. Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 Kemeleon.EncodeCtxtR(c = (c_1,c_2)): u = Decompress_du(c_1) for i from 1 to k*n: u[i] = SamplePreimage(du,u[i],c_1[i]) r = VectorEncodeR(u) if r == err: return err for i from 1 to n: if c_2[i] == 0: return err with prob. 1/ceil(q/(2^dv)) return concat(r,c_2) Kemeleon.DecodeCtxtR(ec): r,c_2 = ec # c_2 is fixed length u = VectorDecodeR(r) c_1 = Compress_du(u) return (c_1,c_2) This is a byte-aligned variant of the encoding as described in the original work [GSV24], and has the following properties. +=============+=============+=============+===================+ | Algorithm / | Output size | Success | Additional | | Parameter | (bytes) | probability | considerations | +=============+=============+=============+===================+ | Kemeleon - | ek: 781, | ek: 0.56, | Large int (750B) | | ML-KEM-512 | ctxt: 877 | ctxt: 0.51 | arithmetic | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+ | Kemeleon - | ek: 1156, | ek: 0.83, | Large int (1150B) | | ML-KEM-768 | ctxt: 1252 | ctxt: 0.77 | arithmetic | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+ | Kemeleon - | ek: 1530, | ek: 0.62, | Large int (1500B) | | ML-KEM-1024 | ctxt: 1658 | ctxt: 0.57 | arithmetic | +-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------------+ Table 2: Summary of Alternate Encoding Properties 5.1.1. Helper Functions The following algorithms VectorEncodeR and VectorDecodeR are used for vector encoding. Encoding in this case accumulates all k polynomials into one large integer r and rejects if the most significant bit msb(r) is 1. The unused top bits of r (when represented in network byte order) are randomized to ensure a fully byte-aligned random output. In this variant, it is no longer feasible to parallelize the encoding of the k polynomials; these must be treated as a single vector of k*n Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 coefficients in order to achieve a reasonable rate of rejection. Therefore, this approach also requires arithmetic over larger integers (up to ceil(log2(q^(4n))) = 11,982 bit integers for ML-KEM- 1024, where k = 4). VectorEncodeR(a,k): r = 0 for i from 1 to k*n: r += q^(i-1)*a[i] if msb(r) == 1: return err r = IntegerRandomizeUnused(r,k) return r VectorDecodeR(r,k): r = IntegerClearUnused(r,k) for i from 1 to k*n: a[i] = r % q r = r // q return a The following helper functions randomize resp. clear the unused bits of the top byte of an integer r (represented in network byte order) produced in VectorEncodeR. IntegerRandomizeUnused(r,k): b = floor(log2(q^(k*n))) # bit size of r, without msb(r) = 0 # b=5990 if k=2, b=8986 if k=3, b=11981 if k=4 x = 8 - (b % 8) # number of unused bits r_bytes = to_bytes(r) # network byte order mask = 0xFF << (8 - x) & 0xFF rand = random_byte(1) # sample 1 byte uniformly random r_bytes[0] = r_bytes[0] | (rand & mask) r = from_bytes(r_bytes) return r IntegerClearUnused(r,k): b = floor(log2(q^(k*n))) # bit size of target integer, without msb(r) = 0 # b=5990 if k=2, b=8986 if k=3, b=11981 if k=4 x = 8 - (b % 8) # number of randomized bits r_bytes = to_bytes(r) # network byte order mask = 0xFF >> x r_bytes[0] = r_bytes[0] & mask r = from_bytes(r_bytes) return r Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 5.1.2. Compressing Encapsulation Keys without Rejection Sampling Applications merely interested in compressing encapsulation keys may use EncodeEkR and DecodeEkR without rejection and random padding in VectorEncodeR. The resulting encoded encapsulation keys will NOT be uniformly random, but have smaller output size as in Table 2. 5.2. Deterministic Encoding The randomness used in Kemeleon ciphertext encodings MAY be derived in a deterministic manner. To do so, following a call to Encap which returns a KEM key K and a ciphertext c, the following steps can be taken: * Using a key derivation function (KDF), derive from the key K a new key K' and a seed for randomness rnd. * The seed rnd can be used to generate the randomness required when encoding the ciphertext c. * Use K' in place of K wherever applicable in the remainder of the protocol/system. * Upon any call to Decap, apply the same KDF to derive the new key K', as required. Deriving a new KEM key for use in the remainder of a system is crucial in order to ensure key separation (i.e., the implementation MUST NOT use the original key K to derive randomness and for other purposes). The randomness used to encode an encapsulation key MAY be stored alongside the corresponding decapsulation key, if it is subsequently needed. See Section 6.2 for relevant discussion on keeping this randomness secret. 5.3. Relation to Hash-to-Curve While the functionality of Kemeleon is similar to hash-to-curve [RFC9380] (mapping arbitrary byte strings to encapsulation keys/ ciphertexts), the applications where hash-to-curve is used do not immediately follow in the KEM-based setting because having such an encapsulation key (without dk) or ciphertext (without dk or ek) does not appear to provide the same functionality, since it is not clear how to continue working with the element in the same way that can be done with an elliptic curve point. Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 5.4. Modifying ML-KEM Algorithms In applications that _only_ require Kemeleon-encoded values _and_ where the underlying ML-KEM implementation can be modified, the ciphertext encoding algorithm (and ML-KEM encapsulation/decapsulation algorithms) MAY be adapted as follows for improved efficiency. In particular, the compression step in the ML-KEM encapsulation algorithm can be omitted, and therefore, the decompression step in the Kemeleon algorithm can be omitted. In the implementation of ML- KEM, the compression step (lines 22-23 of Algorithm 14 [FIPS203]) and corresponding decompression step (lines 3-4 of Algorithm 15 [FIPS203]) can be omitted from the encapsulation/decapsulation algorithms in ML-KEM. In this case, the Kemeleon encoding algorithm for ciphertexts would omit the Decompress and SamplePreimage steps and immediately apply VectorEncode: Kemeleon.EncodeCtxt(c = (c_1,c_2)): w = [c_1,c_2] # treat c_1,c_2 as a singular vector of (k+1)*n coefficients r = VectorEncode(w,k+1) return r Decoding is adapted analogously. Kemeleon.DecodeCtxt(ec): w = VectorDecode(r,k+1) c_1,c_2 = w # c_1, c_2 are fixed length return (c_1,c_2) 6. Security Considerations This section contains additional security considerations about the Kemeleon encodings described in this document. 6.1. Computational Assumptions In general, the obfuscation properties of the Kemeleon encodings depend on module LWE assumptions similar to those underlying the IND- CCA security of ML-KEM; see [GSV24] for the detailed security analysis of the original Kemeleon encoding. In particular, the notions of public/encapsulation key and ciphertext uniformity capture the indistinguishability of Kemeleon-encoded encapsulation keys and ciphertexts from random bitstrings, respectively. Both require the module LWE assumption to hold in order for Kemeleon to maintain its uniformity properties. Furthermore, distinguishing a pair of a Kemeleon-encoded encapsulation key and a Kemeleon-encoded ciphertext from uniformly random bitstrings also reduces to a module LWE assumption. Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 6.2. Randomness Sampling Both encapsulation key and ciphertext encodings in the Kemeleon encoding are randomized. The randomness (or seed used to generate randomness) used in Kemeleon encodings MUST be kept secret. In particular, public randomness enables distinguishing a Kemeleon- encoded value from a random bytestring: Decoding the value in question and re-encoding it with the public randomness will yield the original value if it was Kemeleon-encoded. 6.3. Timing Side-Channels Beyond timing side-channel considerations for ML-KEM itself, care should be taken when using Kemeleon encodings. Algorithms required to perform large integer arithmetic may leak information via timing. Additionally, rejecting and re-generating encapsulation keys or ciphertexts may leak information about the use of Kemeleon encodings, as might the overhead of the encoding itself. 7. IANA Considerations This document has no IANA actions. 8. References 8.1. Normative References [ELL2] Tibouchi, M., "Elligator Squared: Uniform Points on Elliptic Curves of Prime Order as Uniform Random Strings", 2014, . [FIPS203] "Module-lattice-based key-encapsulation mechanism standard", National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.), DOI 10.6028/nist.fips.203, August 2024, . [GSV24] Günther, F., Stebila, D., and S. Veitch, "Obfuscated Key Exchange", 2024, . [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 [RFC9380] Faz-Hernandez, A., Scott, S., Sullivan, N., Wahby, R. S., and C. A. Wood, "Hashing to Elliptic Curves", RFC 9380, DOI 10.17487/RFC9380, August 2023, . 8.2. Informative References [CPACE] Abdalla, M., Haase, B., and J. Hesse, "CPace, a balanced composable PAKE", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft- irtf-cfrg-cpace-21, 22 April 2026, . [ECDH-PSI] Wang, Y., ChangWenting, Lu, Y., Hong, C., and J. Peng, "PSI based on ECDH", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ecdh-psi-00, 21 October 2024, . [OBFS4] "obfs4 (The obfourscator)", n.d., . [OPAQUE] Bourdrez, D., Krawczyk, H., Lewi, K., and C. A. Wood, "The OPAQUE Augmented PAKE Protocol", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-irtf-cfrg-opaque-18, 21 November 2024, . Acknowledgments Thanks to Michael Rosenberg, John Mattsson, and Stanislaw Jarecki for contributions to this document and helpful discussions. Authors' Addresses Felix Günther IBM Research Europe - Zurich Email: mail@felixguenther.info Douglas Stebila University of Waterloo Email: dstebila@uwaterloo.ca Shannon Veitch ETH Zurich Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Kemeleon July 2026 Email: shannon.veitch@inf.ethz.ch Günther, et al. Expires 4 January 2027 [Page 15]