Verifiable Delay Functions z Lucasových posloupností

Krňák, Tomáš

Lucas sequences are constant-recursive integer sequences with a long history of appli- cations in cryptography, both in the design of cryptographic schemes and cryptanalysis. In this work, we study the sequential hardness of computing Lucas sequences over an RSA modulus. First, we show that modular Lucas sequences are at least as sequentially hard as the classical delay function given by iterated modular squaring proposed by Rivest, Shamir, and Wagner in the context of time-lock puzzles. Moreover, there is no obvious reduction in the other direction, which suggests that the assumption of sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences is strictly weaker than that of iterated modular squaring. In other words, the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences might hold even in the case of an algorithmic improvement violating the sequential hardness of iterated modular squaring. Second, we demonstrate the feasibility of constructing practically efficient verifiable delay functions based on the sequential hardness of modular Lucas sequences. Our con- struction builds on the work of Pietrzak (ITCS 2019) by leveraging the intrinsic connec- tion between the problem of computing modular Lucas sequences and exponentiation in an appropriate extension field. 1

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