[Hash] randomized hashes and DSA

"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> Thu, 04 August 2005 07:21 UTC

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At the hash BoF, Ran Canetti suggested using the same random number for 
the hash as for the DSA signature.  That left me feeling very uneasy.  
I think I can now show that it's a very bad idea.

The problem is that the two have very different properties.  The random 
number used for signing must remain confidential; the random number for 
hashing need only be unpredictable.  If I receive a signed message, in 
order to verify it I need to have the random number to feed to the hash 
function.  But before this, the hash module did not need to have any 
confidentiality properties.  With this scheme, it does.  This imposes a 
signficant new requirement on the modularization of the total system.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb



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