TCitH- and VOLEitH-based Signatures from Restricted Decoding

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Auteurs principaux: Bitzer, Sebastian, Battagliola, Michele, Wachter-Zeh, Antonia, Weger, Violetta
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author Bitzer, Sebastian
Battagliola, Michele
Wachter-Zeh, Antonia
Weger, Violetta
author_facet Bitzer, Sebastian
Battagliola, Michele
Wachter-Zeh, Antonia
Weger, Violetta
contents Threshold-Computation-in-the-Head (TCitH) and VOLE-in-the-Head (VOLEitH), two recent developments of the MPC-in-the-Head (MPCitH) paradigm, have significantly improved the performance of digital signature schemes. This work embeds the restricted decoding problem within these frameworks: we propose a structurally simple modeling that achieves competitive signature sizes. Specifically, by instantiating the restricted decoding problem with the same hardness assumption underlying CROSS, we reduce sizes by more than a factor of two compared to the NIST submission. Moreover, we observe that ternary full-weight decoding, closely related to the hardness assumption underlying WAVE, is a restricted decoding problem. Using ternary full-weight decoding, we obtain signature sizes comparable to the smallest MPCitH-based candidates in the NIST competition.
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spellingShingle TCitH- and VOLEitH-based Signatures from Restricted Decoding
Bitzer, Sebastian
Battagliola, Michele
Wachter-Zeh, Antonia
Weger, Violetta
Cryptography and Security
Information Theory
Threshold-Computation-in-the-Head (TCitH) and VOLE-in-the-Head (VOLEitH), two recent developments of the MPC-in-the-Head (MPCitH) paradigm, have significantly improved the performance of digital signature schemes. This work embeds the restricted decoding problem within these frameworks: we propose a structurally simple modeling that achieves competitive signature sizes. Specifically, by instantiating the restricted decoding problem with the same hardness assumption underlying CROSS, we reduce sizes by more than a factor of two compared to the NIST submission. Moreover, we observe that ternary full-weight decoding, closely related to the hardness assumption underlying WAVE, is a restricted decoding problem. Using ternary full-weight decoding, we obtain signature sizes comparable to the smallest MPCitH-based candidates in the NIST competition.
title TCitH- and VOLEitH-based Signatures from Restricted Decoding
topic Cryptography and Security
Information Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11224