Cryptanalysis of RSA Signatures with Fixed-Pattern Padding

  • Authors:
  • Eric Brier;Christophe Clavier;Jean-Sébastien Coron;David Naccache

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO '01 Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A fixed-pattern padding consists in concatenating to the message m a fixed pattern P. The RSA signature is then obtained by computing (P\m)d mod N where d is the private exponent and N the modulus. In Eurocrypt '97, Girault and Misarsky showed that the size of P must be at least half the size of N (in other words the parameter configurations |P| N|/2 are insecure) but the security of RSA fixed-pattern padding remained unknown for |P| |N|/2. In this paper we show that the size of P must be at least two-thirds of the size of N, i.e. we show that |P| N|/3 is insecure.