Sebastian Ramacher

Dr. Sebastian Ramacher

Center for Digital Safety & Security, AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Wien, Austria
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Academic Career Length

12Years (2015-Present)

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30 October 2017
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MCMelissa Chase
Melissa Chase
DDDavid Derler
David Derler
SGSteven Goldfeder
Steven Goldfeder
COClaudio Orlandi
Claudio Orlandi
Sebastian RamacherSebastian Ramacher
Sebastian Ramacher
GZGreg Zaverucha
Greg Zaverucha
We propose a new class of post-quantum digital signature schemes that: (a) derive their security entirely from the security of symmetric-key primitives, believed to be quantum-secure, and (b) have extremely small keypairs, and, (c) are highly parameterizable. In our signature constructions, the public key is an image y=f(x) of a one-way function f and secret key x. A signature is a non-interactive zero-knowledge proof of x, that incorporates a message to be signed. For this proof, we leverage recent progress of Giacomelli et al. (USENIX'16) in constructing an efficient Σ-protocol for statements over general circuits. We improve this Σ-protocol to reduce proof sizes by a factor of two, at no additional computational cost. While this is of independent interest as it yields more compact proofs for any circuit, it also decreases our signature sizes. We consider two possibilities to make the proof non-interactive: the Fiat-Shamir transform and Unruh's transform (EUROCRYPT'12, '15,'16). The former has smaller signatures, while the latter has a security analysis in the quantum-accessible random oracle model. By customizing Unruh's transform to our application, the overhead is reduced to 1.6x when compared to the Fiat-Shamir transform, which does not have a rigorous post-quantum security analysis. We implement and benchmark both approaches and explore the possible choice of f, taking advantage of the recent trend to strive for practical symmetric ciphers with a particularly low number of multiplications and end up using Low MC (EUROCRYPT'15).

15 September 2019
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MAMartin R. Albrecht
Martin R. Albrecht
LGLorenzo Grassi
Lorenzo Grassi
LPLéo Perrin
Léo Perrin
Sebastian RamacherSebastian Ramacher
Sebastian Ramacher
CRChristian Rechberger
Christian Rechberger
MSMarkus Schofnegger
Markus Schofnegger

1 January 2015 in Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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AGAlfred Geroldinger
Alfred Geroldinger
Sebastian RamacherSebastian Ramacher
Sebastian Ramacher
ARAndreas Reinhart
Andreas Reinhart


1 March 2018
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DDDavid Derler
David Derler
SKStephan Krenn
Stephan Krenn
TLThomas Lorünser
Thomas Lorünser
Sebastian RamacherSebastian Ramacher
Sebastian Ramacher
DSDaniel Slamanig
Daniel Slamanig
CSChristoph Striecks
Christoph Striecks

10 December 2024
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CBCarsten Baum
Carsten Baum
WBWard Beullens
Ward Beullens
SMShibam Mukherjee
Shibam Mukherjee
EOEmmanuela Orsini
Emmanuela Orsini
Sebastian RamacherSebastian Ramacher
Sebastian Ramacher
PSPeter Scholl
Peter Scholl