Security issues of CFS-like digital signature algorithms

12/01/2021

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by   Giuseppe D'Alconzo, et al.

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We analyse 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 to the rightful user's public key.