[Resource Topic] 2024/252: Short Signatures from Regular Syndrome Decoding, Revisited

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Title:
Short Signatures from Regular Syndrome Decoding, Revisited

Authors: Dung Bui, Eliana Carozza, Geoffroy Couteau, Dahmun Goudarzi, Antoine Joux

Abstract:

We revisit the construction of signature scheme using the MPC-in-the-head paradigm, and focus in particular on constructions from the regular syndrome decoding assumption, a well-known variant of the syndrome decoding assumption. We obtain two main contributions:

– We observe that previous signatures in the MPC-in-the-head paradigm must rely on a salted version of the GGM puncturable pseudorandom function (PPRF) to avoid collision attacks. We design a new efficient PPRF construction provably secure in the multi-instance setting. The security analysis of our PPRF, in the ideal cipher model, is quite involved and forms a core technical contribution of our work. While previous constructions had to rely on a hash function, our construction uses only a fixed-key block cipher and is considerably more efficient as a result. Our improved PPRF can be used to speed up many MPC-in-the-head signatures, and illustrate it on two signatures: the recent SDitH (submitted to the NIST), and a new signature scheme that we introduce.

– We introduce a new signature scheme from the regular syndrome decoding assumption, based on a new protocol for the MPC-in-the-head paradigm, which significantly reduces communication compared to previous works. Our scheme is conceptually simple, though its security analysis requires a delicate and nontrivial combinatorial analysis.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/252

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