Digital Signatures in a Quantum World: Evaluating The Trade-off Between Performance and Security for GeMSS
Paulo Ricardo Reis, Fábio Borges · 2019
With the advent of quantum computing, it urges the definition of a cryptographic standard algorithm that can resist attacks from a quantum computer. Inside this context is GeMSS, a multivariate quadratic signature scheme based on the HFEvconstruct. Schemes of this type have shown great potential throughout the last two decades. This paper traces a comparison of performance and security between GeMSS and other relevant digital signature schemes, showing that despite of its slow signature generation and large key pair, it has a very quick verification process and tiny signatures. It also proposes a method for deriving the size of keys from the security parameter evaluated.