Computational Alternatives to Random Number Generators

  • Authors:
  • David M'Raïhi;David Naccache;David Pointcheval;Serge Vaudenay

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • SAC '98 Proceedings of the Selected Areas in Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a simple method for generating random-based signatures when random number generators are either unavailable or of suspected quality (malicious or accidental). By opposition to all past state-machine models, we assume that the signer is a memoryless automaton that starts from some internal state, receives a message, outputs its signature and returns precisely to the same initial state; therefore, the new technique formally converts randomized signatures into deterministic ones. Finally, we show how to translate the random oracle concept required in security proofs into a realistic set of tamper-resistance assumptions.