[Resource Topic] 2019/1052: Improved Cryptanalysis of the KMOV Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem

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Title:
Improved Cryptanalysis of the KMOV Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem

Authors: Abderrahmane Nitaj, Willy Susilo, Joseph Tonien

Abstract:

This paper presents two new improved attacks on the KMOV cryptosystem. KMOV is an encryption algorithm based on elliptic curves over the ring {\mathbb{Z}}_N where N=pq is a product of two large primes of equal bit size. The first attack uses the properties of the convergents of the continued fraction expansion of a specific value derived from the KMOV public key. The second attack is based on Coppersmith’s method for finding small solutions of a multivariate polynomial modular equation. Both attacks improve the existing attacks on the KMOV cryptosystem.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1052

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