Dung Bui
IRIF, Université Paris Cité

Eliana Carozza
IRIF, Université Paris Cité

Geoffroy Couteau
CNRS, IRIF, Université Paris Cité

Dahmun Goudarzi
Quarkslab

Antoine Joux
CISPA

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Abstract

We revisit the construction of signature schemes using the MPC-in-the-head paradigm. We obtain two main contributions:

- We observe that previous signatures in the MPC-in-the-head paradigm must rely on a salted version of the GGM puncturable pseudorandom function (PPRF) to avoid collision attacks. We design a new efficient PPRF construction that is provably secure in the multi- instance setting. The security analysis of our PPRF, in the ideal cipher model, is quite involved and forms a core technical contribution of our work. While previous constructions had to rely on a hash function, our construction uses only a fixed-key block cipher and is considerably more efficient as a result: we observe a 12× to 55× speed improvement for a recent signature scheme (Joux and Huth, Crypto’24). Our improved PPRF can be used to speed up many MPC-in-the-head signatures.

- We introduce a new signature scheme from the regular syndrome decoding assumption, based on a new protocol for the MPC-in-the-head paradigm, which significantly reduces communication compared to previous works. Our scheme is conceptually simple, though its security analysis requires a delicate and nontrivial combinatorial analysis.