[Resource Topic] 2024/1453: Breaking and Repairing SQIsign2D-East

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Title:
Breaking and Repairing SQIsign2D-East

Authors: Wouter Castryck, Mingjie Chen, Riccardo Invernizzi, Gioella Lorenzon, Frederik Vercauteren

Abstract:

We present a key recovery attack on SQIsign2D-East that reduces its security level from \lambda to \lambda/2. We exploit the fact that each signature leaks a Legendre symbol modulo the secret degree of the private key isogeny. About \lambda/2 signatures are enough for these Legendre symbols to fully determine the secret degree, which can then be recovered by exhaustive search over a set of size O(2^{\lambda/2}). Once the degree is known, the private key isogeny itself can be found, again by exhaustive search, in time \tilde{O}(2^{\lambda/2}).

We also present a new version of the protocol which does not leak any such information about the private key and show that our modified protocol is more efficient than the original one. Finally, we give a security analysis as well as a new proof of security.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1453

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