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Title:
The Legendre Pseudorandom Function as a Multivariate Quadratic Cryptosystem: Security and Applications
Authors: István András Seres, Máté Horváth, Péter Burcsi
Abstract:Sequences of consecutive Legendre and Jacobi symbols as pseudorandom bit generators were proposed for cryptographic use in 1988. Major interest has been shown towards pseudorandom functions (PRF) recently, based on the Legendre and power residue symbols, due to their efficiency in the multi-party setting. The security of these PRFs is not known to be reducible to standard cryptographic assumptions. In this work, we show that key-recovery attacks against the Legendre PRF are equivalent to solving a specific family of multivariate quadratic (MQ) equation system over a finite prime field. This new perspective sheds some light on the complexity of key-recovery attacks against the Legendre PRF. We conduct algebraic cryptanalysis on the resulting MQ instance. We show that the currently known techniques and attacks fall short in solving these sparse quadratic equation systems. Furthermore, we build novel cryptographic applications from the Legendre PRF, e.g., verifiable random function and (verifiable) oblivious (programmable) PRFs.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/182
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