Title
Cryptanalysis of a rank-based signature with short public keys
Abstract
Following Schnorr framework for obtaining digital signatures, Song et al. recently proposed a new instantiation of a signature scheme featuring small public keys from coding assumptions in rank metric, which was accepted at PKC’19. Their proposal makes use of rank quasi-cyclic (RQC) codes to reduce the public key size. We show that it is possible to turn a valid, legitimate signature into an efficiently solvable decoding problem, which allows to recover the randomness used for signing and hence the secret key, from a single signature, in about the same amount of time as required for signing.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s10623-019-00702-0
Designs, Codes and Cryptography
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Post-quantum cryptography, Coding theory, Rank metric, RQC, Signature, Cryptanalysis, 94A60, 11T71, 14G50
Journal
88
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0925-1022
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Aragon152.82
Olivier Blazy219816.48
Jean-Christophe Deneuville3163.08
Philippe Gaborit470056.29
Terry Shue Chien Lau513.73
Chik How Tan649954.60
Keita Xagawa725820.51