Selective Forgery of RSA Signatures with Fixed-Pattern Padding

  • Authors:
  • Arjen K. Lenstra;Igor Shparlinski

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PKC '02 Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptosystems: Public Key Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a practical selective forgery attack against RSA signatures with fixed-pattern padding shorter than two thirds of the modulus length. Our result extends the practical existential forgery of such RSA signatures that was presented at Crypto 2001. For an n-bit modulus the heuristic asymptotic runtime of our forgery is comparable to the time required to factor a modulus of only 9/64n bits. Thus, the security provided by short fixed-pattern padding is negligible compared to the security it is supposed to provide.