Security of the Fiat-Shamir Transformation in the Quantum Random-Oracle Model

The famous Fiat-Shamir transformation turns any public-coin three-round interactive proof, i.e., any so-called sigma-protocol, into a non-interactive proof in the random-oracle model. We study this transformation in the setting of a quantum adversary that in particular may query the random oracle in quantum superposition. Our main result is a generic reduction that transforms any quantum dishonest prover attacking the Fiat-Shamir transformation in the quantum random-oracle model into a similarly successful quantum dishonest prover attacking the underlying sigma-protocol (in the standard model). Applied to the standard soundness and proof-of-knowledge definitions, our reduction implies that both these security properties, in both the computational and the statistical variant, are preserved under the Fiat-Shamir transformation even when allowing quantum attacks. Our result improves and completes the partial results that have been known so far, but it also proves wrong certain claims made in the literature. In the context of post-quantum secure signature schemes, our results imply that for any sigma-protocol that is a proof-of-knowledge against quantum dishonest provers (and that satisfies some additional natural properties), the corresponding Fiat-Shamir signature scheme is secure in the quantum random-oracle model. For example, we can conclude that the non-optimized version of Fish, which is the bare Fiat-Shamir variant of the NIST candidate Picnic, is secure in the quantum random-oracle model.Comment: 20 page

Making Existential-Unforgeable Signatures Strongly Unforgeable in the Quantum Random-Oracle Model

Strongly unforgeable signature schemes provide a more stringent security guarantee than the standard existential unforgeability. It requires that not only forging a signature on a new message is hard, it is infeasible as well to produce a new signature on a message for which the adversary has seen valid signatures before. Strongly unforgeable signatures are useful both in practice and as a building block in many cryptographic constructions. This work investigates a generic transformation that compiles any existential-unforgeable scheme into a strongly unforgeable one, which was proposed by Teranishi et al. and was proven in the classical random-oracle model. Our main contribution is showing that the transformation also works against quantum adversaries in the quantum random-oracle model. We develop proof techniques such as adaptively programming a quantum random-oracle in a new setting, which could be of independent interest. Applying the transformation to an existential-unforgeable signature scheme due to Cash et al., which can be shown to be quantum-secure assuming certain lattice problems are hard for quantum computers, we get an efficient quantum-secure strongly unforgeable signature scheme in the quantum random-oracle model.Comment: 15 pages, to appear in Proceedings TQC 201

LegRoast: Efficient post-quantum signatures from the Legendre PRF

We introduce an efficient post-quantum signature scheme that relies on the one-wayness of the Legendre PRF. This LEGendRe One-wAyness SignaTure (LegRoast) builds upon the MPC-in-the-head technique to construct an efficient zero-knowledge proof, which is then turned into a signature scheme with the Fiat-Shamir transform. Unlike many other Fiat-Shamir signatures, the security of LegRoast can be proven without using the forking lemma, and this leads to a tight (classical) ROM proof. We also introduce a generalization that relies on the one-wayness of higher-power residue characters; the POwer Residue ChaRacter One-wAyness SignaTure (PorcRoast). LegRoast outperforms existing MPC-in-the-head-based signatures (most notably Picnic/Picnic2) in terms of signature size and speed. Moreover, PorcRoast outperforms LegRoast by a factor of 2 in both signature size and signing time. For example, one of our parameter sets targeting NIST security level I results in a signature size of 7.2 KB and a signing time of 2.8ms. This makes PorcRoast the most efficient signature scheme based on symmetric primitives in terms of signature size and signing time

The Measure-and-Reprogram Technique 2.0: Multi-Round Fiat-Shamir and More

We revisit recent works by Don, Fehr, Majenz and Schaffner and by Liu and Zhandry on the security of the Fiat-Shamir transformation of $\Sigma$-protocols in the quantum random oracle model (QROM). Two natural questions that arise in this context are: (1) whether the results extend to the Fiat-Shamir transformation of multi-round interactive proofs, and (2) whether Don et al.'s $O(q^2)$ loss in security is optimal. Firstly, we answer question (1) in the affirmative. As a byproduct of solving a technical difficulty in proving this result, we slightly improve the result of Don et al., equipping it with a cleaner bound and an even simpler proof. We apply our result to digital signature schemes showing that it can be used to prove strong security for schemes like MQDSS in the QROM. As another application we prove QROM-security of a non-interactive OR proof by Liu, Wei and Wong. As for question (2), we show via a Grover-search based attack that Don et al.'s quadratic security loss for the Fiat-Shamir transformation of $\Sigma$-protocols is optimal up to a small constant factor. This extends to our new multi-round result, proving it tight up to a factor that depends on the number of rounds only, i.e. is constant for any constant-round interactive proof.Comment: 22 page