QUAD: Overview and Recent Developments

Authors David Arditti, Côme Berbain, Olivier Billet, Henri Gilbert, Jacques Patarin



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David Arditti
Côme Berbain
Olivier Billet
Henri Gilbert
Jacques Patarin

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David Arditti, Côme Berbain, Olivier Billet, Henri Gilbert, and Jacques Patarin. QUAD: Overview and Recent Developments. In Symmetric Cryptography. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7021, pp. 1-20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)
https://doi.org/10.4230/DagSemProc.07021.9

Abstract

We give an outline of the specification and provable security features of the QUAD stream cipher proposed at Eurocrypt 2006. The cipher relies on the iteration of a multivariate system of quadratic equations over a finite field, typically GF(2) or a small extension. In the binary case, the security of the keystream generation can be related, in the concrete security model, to the conjectured intractability of the MQ problem of solving a random system of m equations in n unknowns. We show that this security reduction can be extended to incorporate the key and IV setup and provide a security argument related to the whole stream cipher.We also briefly address software and hardware performance issues and show that if one is willing to pseudorandomly generate the systems of quadratic polynomials underlying the cipher, this leads to suprisingly inexpensive hardware implementations of QUAD.
Keywords
  • MQ problem
  • stream cipher
  • provable security
  • Gröbner basis

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