Paper 2020/1165

Practical Isogeny-Based Key-exchange with Optimal Tightness

Bor de Kock, Kristian Gjøsteen, and Mattia Veroni

Abstract

We exploit the Diffie-Hellman-like structure of CSIDH to build a quantum-resistant authenticated key-exchange algorithm. Our security proof has optimal tightness, which means that the protocol is efficient even when instantiated with theoretically-sound security parameters. Compared to previous isogeny-based authenticated key-exchange protocols, our scheme is extremely simple, its security relies only on the underlying CSIDH-problem and it has optimal communication complexity for CSIDH-based protocols. Our security proof relies heavily on the rerandomizability of CSIDH-like problems and carries on in the ROM.

Note: This paper, with minor modifications, will appear at SAC2020.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Post-quantumisogenieskey-exchangeprovable-securitytightnessrerandomization.
Contact author(s)
mattia veroni @ ntnu no
History
2020-09-25: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2020/1165
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1165,
      author = {Bor de Kock and Kristian Gjøsteen and Mattia Veroni},
      title = {Practical Isogeny-Based Key-exchange with Optimal Tightness},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1165},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1165}
}
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