Deterministic ECDSA and EdDSA Signatures with Additional Randomness
draft-mattsson-cfrg-det-sigs-with-noise-02
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (cfrg RG) | |
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| Authors | John Preuß Mattsson , Erik Thormarker , Sini Ruohomaa | ||
| Last updated | 2020-09-12 (Latest revision 2020-03-11) | ||
| Stream | Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) | ||
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-mattsson-cfrg-det-sigs-with-noise-02.txt
Abstract
Deterministic elliptic-curve signatures such as deterministic ECDSA and EdDSA have gained popularity over randomized ECDSA as their security do not depend on a source of high-quality randomness. Recent research has however found that implementations of these signature algorithms may be vulnerable to certain side-channel and fault injection attacks due to their determinism. One countermeasure to such attacks is to re-add randomness to the otherwise deterministic calculation of the per-message secret number. This document updates RFC 6979 and RFC 8032 to recommend constructions with additional randomness for deployments where side-channel attacks and fault injection attacks are a concern.
Authors
John Preuß Mattsson
Erik Thormarker
Sini Ruohomaa
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