Cryptography Based on Quadratic Forms: Complexity Considerations

  • Authors:
  • Rupert J. Hartung

  • Affiliations:
  • Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt a. M., Frankfurt a. M., Germany 60054

  • Venue:
  • Research in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We study the computational problem Trafoof finding an integral equivalence transform between two given quadratic forms. This is motivated by a recent identification scheme based on this problem [10]. We prove that for indefinite forms over 驴, its hardness is concentrated in dimensions 3 and 4. Moreover, over the field of rational numbers the complexity of Trafois closely related to that of factoring. However, for definite forms over 驴, as well as for forms over finite fields, the transformation problem is solvable in polynomial time.