Practical Attack on All Parameters of the DME Signature Scheme

DME is a multivariate scheme submitted to the call for additional signatures recently launched by NIST. Its performance is one of the best among all the candidates. The public key is constructed from the alternation of very structured linear and non-linear components that constitute the private key, the latter being defined over an extension field. We exploit these structures by proposing an algebraic attack which is practical on all DME parameters.

Travail en commun avec Maxime Bros, Ray Perlner et Daniel Smith-Tone.