SCALLOP: Scaling the CSI-FiSh

Luca De Feo, Tako Boris Fouotsa, Péter Kutas, Antonin Leroux, Simon Philipp Merz, Lorenz Panny, Benjamin Wesolowski

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Abstract

We present SCALLOP: SCALable isogeny action based on Oriented supersingular curves with Prime conductor, a new group action based on isogenies of supersingular curves. Similarly to CSIDH and OSIDH, we use the group action of an imaginary quadratic order’s class group on the set of oriented supersingular curves. Compared to CSIDH, the main benefit of our construction is that it is easy to compute the class-group structure; this data is required to uniquely represent — and efficiently act by — arbitrary group elements, which is a requirement in, e.g., the CSI-FiSh signature scheme by Beullens, Kleinjung and Vercauteren. The index-calculus algorithm used in CSI-FiSh to compute the class-group structure has complexity L(1/2), ruling out class groups much larger than CSIDH-512, a limitation that is particularly problematic in light of the ongoing debate regarding the quantum security of cryptographic group actions. Hoping to solve this issue, we consider the class group of a quadratic order of large prime conductor inside an imaginary quadratic field of small discriminant. This family of quadratic orders lets us easily determine the size of the class group, and, by carefully choosing the conductor, even exercise significant control on it — in particular supporting highly smooth choices. Although evaluating the resulting group action still has subexponential asymptotic complexity, a careful choice of parameters leads to a practical speedup that we demonstrate in practice for a security level equivalent to CSIDH-1024, a parameter currently firmly out of reach of index-calculus-based methods. However, our implementation takes 35 s (resp. 12.5 min) for a single group-action evaluation at a CSIDH-512-equivalent (resp. CSIDH-1024-equivalent) security level, showing that, while feasible, the SCALLOP group action does not achieve realistically usable performance yet.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPublic-Key Cryptography – PKC 2023 - 26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings
EditorsAlexandra Boldyreva, Vladimir Kolesnikov
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages345-375
Number of pages31
ISBN (Print)9783031313677
DOIs
StatePublished - 2023
Externally publishedYes
Event26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2023 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: 7 May 202310 May 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13940 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference26th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period7/05/2310/05/23

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