When stream cipher analysis meets public-key cryptography

  • Authors:
  • Matthieu Finiasz;Serge Vaudenay

  • Affiliations:
  • EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland;EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • SAC'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Selected areas in cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Inspired by fast correlation attacks on stream ciphers, we present a stream cipher-like construction for a public-key cryptosystem whose security relies on two problems: finding a low-weight multiple of a given polynomial and a Hidden Correlation problem. We obtain a weakly secure public-key cryptosystem we call TCHo (as for Trapdoor Cipher, Hardware Oriented). Using the Fujisaki-Okamoto construction, we can build an hybrid cryptosystem, TCHon-FO, resistant against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks.