Improved cryptanalysis of the multi-prime φ-hiding assumption

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Herrmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Faculty of Mathematics, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • AFRICACRYPT'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Progress in cryptology in Africa
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the Multi-Prime φ-Hiding Problem as introduced in a recent construction by Kiltz et al. from Crypto 2010. We are able to improve upon previous cryptanalytic results by making use of the special structure of the polynomial that is derived from the problem instance. Our attack is based on the method of Coppersmith for finding small solutions of modular equations. In particular, we make use of a recent result from Herrmann and May to solve linear equations modulo divisors.