Daniel Smith-Tone

Publications

Practical Cryptanalysis of k-ary C*

July 18, 2019

Author(s):

Daniel C. Smith-Tone

Recently, an article by Felke appeared in Cryptography and Communications discussing the security of biquadratic $C^*$ and a further generalization, k-ary $C...

Extracting Linearization Equations from Noisy Sources

February 15, 2019

Author(s):

Daniel C. Smith-Tone

This note was originally written under the name "On the Security of HMFEv" and was submitted to PQCrypto 2018. The author was informed by the referees of his...

Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process

January 31, 2019

Author(s):

Gorjan Alagic, Jacob M. Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel C. Apon, David A. Cooper, Quynh H. Dang, Carl A. Miller, Dustin Moody, Rene C. Peralta, Ray A. Perlner, Angela Y. Robinson, Daniel C. Smith-Tone, Yi-Kai Liu

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is in the process of selecting one or more public-key cryptographic algorithms through a public competition-...

Improved Cryptanalysis of HFEv- via Projection

April 01, 2018

Author(s):

Jintai Ding, Ray A. Perlner, Albrecht R. Petzoldt, Daniel C. Smith-Tone

The HFEv- signature scheme is one of the most studied multivariate schemes and one of the major candidates for the upcoming standardization of post-quantum...

HFERP -- A New Multivariate Encryption Scheme

April 01, 2018

Author(s):

Yashuhiko Ikematsu, Ray A. Perlner, Daniel C. Smith-Tone, Tsuyoshi Takagi, Jeremy Vates

In 2016, Yasuda et al.~presented a new multivariate encryption technique based on the Square and Rainbow primitives and utilizing the plus modifier that they...