Paper 2021/387

Quantum-access security of the Winternitz one-time signature scheme

Christian Majenz, Chanelle Matadah Manfouo, and Maris Ozols

Abstract

Quantum-access security, where an attacker is granted superposition access to secret-keyed functionalities, is a fundamental security model and its study has inspired results in post-quantum security. We revisit, and fill a gap in, the quantum-access security analysis of the Lamport one-time signature scheme (OTS) in the quantum random oracle model (QROM) by Alagic et al.~(Eurocrypt 2020). We then go on to generalize the technique to the Winternitz OTS. Along the way, we develop a tool for the analysis of hash chains in the QROM based on the superposition oracle technique by Zhandry (Crypto 2019) which might be of independent interest.

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Category
Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
quantumquantum access modelunforgeabilityone-time signatureshash-based signatureLamportWinternitz
Contact author(s)
christian majenz @ gmail com
cmatadah @ quantumleapafrica org
marozols @ gmail com
History
2021-06-24: revised
2021-03-27: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/387
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/387,
      author = {Christian Majenz and Chanelle Matadah Manfouo and Maris Ozols},
      title = {Quantum-access security of the Winternitz one-time signature scheme},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/387},
      year = {2021},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/387}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/387}
}
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