Paper 2019/731 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2019/731 ↗

On the Complexity of ``Superdetermined'' Minrank Instances

Javier Verbel
John Baena
Daniel Cabarcas
Ray Perlner
Daniel Smith-Tone
Abstract

The Minrank (MR) problem is a computational problem closely related to attacks on code- and multivariate-based schemes. In this paper we revisit the so-called Kipnis-Shamir (KS) approach to this problem. We extend previous complexity analysis by exposing non-trivial syzygies through the analysis of the Jacobian of the resulting system, with respect to a group of variables. We focus on a particular set of instances that yield a very overdetermined system which we refer to as ``superdetermined''. We provide a tighter complexity estimate for such instances and discuss its implications for the key recovery attack on some multivariate schemes. For example, in HFE the speedup is roughly a square root.

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2019-06-20: last updated
2019-06-20: published
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https://ia.cr/2019/731
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{cryptoeprint:2019/731,
      author = {Javier Verbel and John Baena and Daniel Cabarcas and Ray Perlner and Daniel Smith-Tone},
      title = {On the Complexity of ``Superdetermined'' Minrank Instances},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2019/731},
      year = {2019},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/731}
}
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