Tight and Optimal Reductions for Signatures Based on Average Trapdoor Preimage Sampleable Functions and Applications to Code-Based Signatures

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Abstract

The GPV construction [GPV08] presents a generic construction of signature schemes in the Hash and Sign paradigm and is used in some lattice based signatures. This construction requires a family of trapdoor preimage sampleable functions (TPSF). In this work we extend this notion to the weaker Average TPSF (ATPSF) and show that the GPV construction also holds for ATPSF in the Random Oracle Model (ROM). We also introduce the problem of finding a Claw with a random function (Claw(RF)) and present a tight security reduction to the Claw(RF) problem. Our reduction is also optimal meaning that an algorithm that solves the Claw(RF) problem breaks the scheme. We extend these results to the quantum setting and prove this same tight and optimal reduction in the QROM. Finally, we apply these results to code-based signatures, notably the Wave signature scheme and prove security for it in the ROM and the QROM, improving and extending the original analysis of [DST19a].

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPublic-Key Cryptography - PKC 2020 - 23rd IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings
EditorsAggelos Kiayias, Markulf Kohlweiss, Petros Wallden, Vassilis Zikas
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages453-479
Number of pages27
ISBN (Print)9783030453879
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 4 May 20207 May 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume12111 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference23rd IACR International Conference on the Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period4/05/207/05/20

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