Proving tight security for Rabin-Williams signatures

D.J. Bernstein

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    Abstract

    This paper proves "tight security in the random-oracle model relative to factorization" for the lowest-cost signature systems available today: every hash-generic signature-forging attack can be converted, with negligible loss of efficiency and effectiveness, into an algorithm to factor the public key. The most surprising system is the "fixed unstructured B = 0 Rabin-Williams" system, which has a tight security proof despite hashing unrandomized messages.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in cryptology - eurocrypt 2008 : 27th annual international conference on the Theory and applications of cryptographic Techniques, Istanbul, Turkey, April 13-17, 2008 : proceedings
    EditorsN. Smart
    Place of PublicationBerlin
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages70-87
    ISBN (Print)978-3-540-78966-6
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2008

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
    Volume4965
    ISSN (Print)0302-9743

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