Faster Generation of NICE-Schnorr-Type Signatures

  • Authors:
  • Detlef Hühnlein

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CT-RSA 2001 Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Topics in Cryptology: The Cryptographer's Track at RSA
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In [7] there was proposed a Schnorr-type signature scheme based on non-maximal imaginary quadratic orders, which signature generation is - for the same conjectured level of security - about twice as fast as in the original scheme [15].In this work we will significantly improve upon this result, by speeding up the generation of NICE-Schnorr-type signatures by another factor of two. While in [7] one used the surjective homomorphism F*p驴F*p 驴 Ker(驴Cl-1) to generate signatures by two modular exponentiations, we will show that there is an efficiently computable isomorphism F*p 驴 Ker(驴Cl-1) in this case, which makes the signature generation about four times as fast as in the original Schnorr scheme [15].