Cryptanalysis of an identification scheme based on the permuted perceptron problem

  • Authors:
  • Lars R. Knudsen;Willi Meier

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen;FH-Aargau, Windisch

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'99 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes an attack on an identification scheme based on the permuted perceptron problem (PPP) as suggested by Point-cheval. The attack finds the secret key, a vector of n binary elements, in time much faster than estimated by its designer. The basic idea in the attack is to use several applications of a simulated annealing algorithm and combine the outcomes into an improved search. It is left as an open problem to what extent the methods developed in this paper are useful also in other combinatorial problems.