Paper 2021/1045

An improvement of algorithms to solve under-defined systems of multivariate quadratic equations

Yasufumi Hashimoto, University of the Ryukyus
Abstract

The problem of solving a system of multivariate quadratic equations over a finite field is known to be hard in general. However, there have been several algorithms of solving the system of quadratic equations efficiently when the number of variables is sufficiently larger than the number of equations (e.g., Kipnis et al., Eurocrypt 1999, Thomae-Wolf, PKC 2012, Cheng et al., PQCrypto 2014 and Furue et al., PQCrypto 2021). In the present paper, we propose a new algorithm which is available if the number of variables is smaller than that required in the previously given algorithms. We also analyze the security of MAYO, a variant of UOV, proposed in SAC 2021 and submitted to NIST's standardization project of additional digital signature schemes for Post-Quantum Cryptography.

Note: 9 pages

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Minor revision. JSIAM Letters, Vol. 15 (2023)
Keywords
multivariate public key cryptosystem
Contact author(s)
hashimoto @ math u-ryukyu ac jp
History
2023-07-19: revised
2021-08-16: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1045
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1045,
      author = {Yasufumi Hashimoto},
      title = {An improvement of algorithms to solve under-defined systems of  multivariate quadratic equations},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2021/1045},
      year = {2021},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1045}
}
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