[Resource Topic] 2021/169: Security Analysis on an El-Gamal-like Multivariate Encryption Scheme Based on Isomorphism of Polynomials

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Title:
Security Analysis on an El-Gamal-like Multivariate Encryption Scheme Based on Isomorphism of Polynomials

Authors: Yasuhiko Ikematsu, Shuhei Nakamura, Bagus Santoso, Takanori Yasuda

Abstract:

Isomorphism of polynomials with two secrets (IP2S) problem was proposed by Patarin et al. at Eurocrypt 1996 and the problem is to find two secret linear maps filling in the gap between two polynomial maps over a finite field. At PQC 2020, Santoso proposed a problem originated from IP2S, which is called block isomorphism of polynomials with circulant matrices (BIPC) problem. The BIPC problem is obtained by linearizing IP2S and restricting secret linear maps to linear maps represented by circulant matrices. Using the commutativity of products of circulant matrices, Santoso also proposed an El-Gamal-like encryption scheme based on the BIPC problem. In this paper, we give a new security analysis on the El-Gamal-like encryption scheme. In particular, we introduce a new attack (called linear stack attack) which finds an equivalent key of the El-Gamal-like encryption scheme by using the linearity of the BIPC problem. We see that the attack is a polynomial-time algorithm and can break some 128-bit proposed parameters of the El-Gamal-like encryption scheme within 10 hours on a standard PC.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/169

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