An Attack on Some Signature Schemes Constructed From Five-Pass Identification Schemes

Daniel Kales, Greg Zaverucha

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Abstract

We present a generic forgery attack on signature schemes constructed from 5-round identification schemes made non-interactive with the Fiat-Shamir transform. The attack applies to ID schemes that use parallel repetition to decrease the soundness error. The attack can be mitigated by increasing the number of parallel repetitions, and our analysis of the attack facilitates parameter selection. We apply the attack to MQDSS, a post-quantum signature scheme relying on the hardness of the MQ-problem. Concretely, forging a signature for the L1 instance of MQDSS, which should provide 128 bits of security, can be done in ≈ 2 95 operations. We verify the validity of the attack by implementing it for round-reduced versions of MQDSS, and the designers have revised their parameter choices accordingly. We also survey other post-quantum signature algorithms and find the attack succeeds against PKP-DSS (a signature scheme based on the hardness of the permuted kernel problem) and list other schemes that may be affected. Finally, we use our analysis to choose parameters and investigate the performance of a 5-round variant of the Picnic scheme.

Originalspracheenglisch
TitelCryptology and Network Security - 19th International Conference, CANS 2020, Vienna, Austria, December 14–16, 2020, Proceedings
Untertitel19th International Conference, CANS 2020, Vienna, Austria, December 14–16, 2020, Proceedings
Redakteure/-innenStephan Krenn, Haya Shulman, Serge Vaudenay
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer
Seiten3-22
Seitenumfang20
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-030-65411-5
ISBN (Print)9783030654108
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 14 Dez. 2020
Veranstaltung19th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security - Virtuell, Österreich
Dauer: 14 Dez. 202016 Dez. 2020
https://cans2020.at/

Publikationsreihe

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Band12579 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (elektronisch)1611-3349

Konferenz

Konferenz19th International Conference on Cryptology And Network Security
KurztitelCANS 2020
Land/GebietÖsterreich
OrtVirtuell
Zeitraum14/12/2016/12/20
Internetadresse

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretische Informatik
  • Informatik (insg.)

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