[Resource Topic] 2011/427: A new attack on the KMOVcryptosystem

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Title:
A new attack on the KMOVcryptosystem

Authors: Abderrahmane Nitaj

Abstract:

In this paper, we analyze the security of the KMOV public key cryptosystem. KMOV is based on elliptic curves over the ring \mathbb{Z}_n where n=pq is the product of two large unknown primes of equal bit-size. We consider KMOV with a public key (n,e) where the exponent e satisfies an equation ex-(p+1)(q+1)y=z, with unknown parameters x, y, z. Using Diophantine approximations and lattice reduction techniques, we show that KMOV is insecure when x, y, z are suitably small.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/427

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