[Resource Topic] 2024/1517: A Note on the SNOVA Security

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Title:
A Note on the SNOVA Security

Authors: Lih-Chung Wang, Chun-Yen Chou, Jintai Ding, Yen-Liang Kuan, Jan Adriaan Leegwater, Ming-Siou Li, Bo-Shu Tseng, Po-En Tseng, Chia-Chun Wang

Abstract:

SNOVA is one of the submissions in the NIST Round 1 Additional Signature of the Post-Quantum Signature Competition. SNOVA is a UOV variant that uses the noncommutative-ring technique to educe the size of the public key. SNOVA’s public key size and signature size are well-balanced and have good performance. Recently, Beullens proposed a forgery attack against SNOVA, pointing out that the parameters of SNOVA can be attacked. Beullens also argued that with some slight adjustments his attacks can be prevented. In this note, we explain Beullens’ forgery attack and show that the attack can be invalid by two different approaches. Finally, we show that these two approaches do not increase the sizes of the public keys or signatures and the current parameters satisfy the security requirement of NIST.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1517

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