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Security issues of CFS-like digital signature algorithms

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pp. 175–187Vol. 27Issue 1January 2024DOI: 10.47974/JDMSC-1643 Crossmark XML
Received:
08 Dec 2021
Accepted:
20 Jun 2022
Published Online:
24 Jan 2024
Article type:
Research Article
Language:
EN
Article no.:
JDMSC-1643
Pages:
175–187

Abstract

We analyze the security of some variants of the CFS code-based digital signature scheme. We show how the adoption of some code-based hash functions to improve the efficiency of CFS leads to the ability of an attacker to produce a forgery compatible with the rightful user’s public key.

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(2010) 94A6294B05

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