Inoculating multivariate schemes against differential attacks

  • Authors:
  • Jintai Ding;Jason E. Gower

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH;Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

  • Venue:
  • PKC'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We demonstrate how to prevent differential attacks on multivariate public key cryptosystems using the Plus (+) method of external perturbation. In particular, we prescribe adding as few as 10 Plus polynomials to the Perturbed Matsumoto-Imai (PMI) cryptosystem when g=1 and r=6, where θ is the Matsumoto-Imai exponent, n is the message length, g=gcd(θ,n), and r is the internal perturbation dimension; or as few as g+10 when g ≠ 1. The external perturbation does not significantly decrease the efficiency of the system, and in fact has the additional benefit of resolving the problem of finding the true plaintext among several preimages of a given ciphertext. We call this new scheme the Perturbed Matsumoto-Imai-Plus (PMI+) cryptosystem.