Proof-of-forgery for hash-based signatures.
Published in 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography SECRYPT, 2021
In the present work, a peculiar property of hash-based signatures allowing detection of their forgery event is explored. This property relies on the fact that a successful forgery of a hash-based signature most likely results in a collision with respect to the employed hash function, while the demonstration of this collision could serve as convincing evidence of the forgery. Here we prove that with properly adjusted parameters Lamport and Winternitz one-time signatures schemes could exhibit a forgery detection availability property. This property is of significant importance in the framework of the crypto-agility paradigm since the considered forgery detection serves as an alarm that the employed cryptographic hash function becomes insecure to use and the corresponding scheme has to be replaced.
Recommended citation: Kiktenko, E., Kudinov, M., Bulychev, A. and Fedorov, A. (2021). Proof-of-Forgery for Hash-based Signatures. In Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - SECRYPT; ISBN 978-989-758-524-1; ISSN 2184-7711, SciTePress, pages 333-342. DOI: 10.5220/0010579603330342
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