Paper 2024/861

A new multivariate primitive from CCZ equivalence

Marco Calderini, University of Trento
Alessio Caminata, University of Genoa
Irene Villa, University of Genoa
Abstract

Multivariate Cryptography is one of the main candidates for Post-quantum Cryptography. Multivariate schemes are usually constructed by applying two secret affine invertible transformations $\mathcal S,\mathcal T$ to a set of multivariate polynomials $\mathcal{F}$ (often quadratic). The secret polynomials $\mathcal{F}$ posses a trapdoor that allows the legitimate user to find a solution of the corresponding system, while the public polynomials $\mathcal G=\mathcal S\circ\mathcal F\circ\mathcal T$ look like random polynomials. The polynomials $\mathcal G$ and $\mathcal F$ are said to be affine equivalent. In this article, we present a more general way of constructing a multivariate scheme by considering the CCZ equivalence, which has been introduced and studied in the context of vectorial Boolean functions.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
Keywords
Post-quantum CryptographyMultivariate CryptographyBoolean functionsCCZ equivalence
Contact author(s)
marco calderini @ unitn it
alessio caminata @ unige it
irene1villa @ gmail com
History
2024-06-05: approved
2024-05-31: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/861
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/861,
      author = {Marco Calderini and Alessio Caminata and Irene Villa},
      title = {A new multivariate primitive from {CCZ} equivalence},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/861},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/861}
}
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