Isogeny Problems with Level Structure

Luca De Feo, Tako Boris Fouotsa, Lorenz Panny

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Abstract

Given two elliptic curves and the degree of an isogeny between them, finding the isogeny is believed to be a difficult problem—upon which rests the security of nearly any isogeny-based scheme. If, however, to the data above we add information about the behavior of the isogeny on a large enough subgroup, the problem can become easy, as recent cryptanalyses on SIDH have shown. Between the restriction of the isogeny to a full N-torsion subgroup and no “torsion information” at all lies a spectrum of interesting intermediate problems, raising the question of how easy or hard each of them is. Here we explore modular isogeny problems where the torsion information is masked by the action of a group of 2×2 matrices. We give reductions between these problems, classify them by their difficulty, and link them to security assumptions found in the literature.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2024 - 43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings
EditorsMarc Joye, Gregor Leander
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages181-204
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783031587535
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2024 - Zurich, Switzerland
Duration: 26 May 202430 May 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14657 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference43rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2024
Country/TerritorySwitzerland
CityZurich
Period26/05/2430/05/24

Keywords

  • Isogenies
  • Post-quantum
  • Security reductions

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