[Resource Topic] 2020/1243: A New Variant of Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Using Quotient Ring: QR-UOV

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Title:
A New Variant of Unbalanced Oil and Vinegar Using Quotient Ring: QR-UOV

Authors: Hiroki Furue, Yasuhiko Ikematsu, Yutaro Kiyomura, Tsuyoshi Takagi

Abstract:

The unbalanced oil and vinegar signature scheme (UOV) is a multivariate signature scheme that has essentially not been broken for over 20 years. However, it requires the use of a large public key; thus, various methods have been proposed to reduce its size. In this paper, we propose a new variant of UOV with a public key represented by block matrices whose components correspond to an element of a quotient ring. We discuss how it affects the security of our proposed scheme whether or not the quotient ring is a field. Furthermore, we discuss their security against currently known and newly possible attacks and propose parameters for our scheme. We demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve a small public key size without significantly increasing the signature size compared with other UOV variants. For example, the public key size of our proposed scheme is 85.8 KB for NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Project (security level 3), whereas that of compressed Rainbow is 252.3 KB, where Rainbow is a variant of UOV and is one of the third-round finalists of the NIST PQC project.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1243

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsucjX8QhY0

Slides: https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2021/asiacrypt/asiacrypt2021/68/slides.pdf

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