Sflash

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Sflash is an asymmetric cryptosystem for digital signatures . It was developed by Nicolas T. Courtois, Louis Goubin and Jacques Patarin.

Sflash was recommended by the NESSIE project in 2003.

In 2007 Vivien Dubois, Pierre-Alain Fouque, Adi Shamir and Jacques Stern presented a full attack on Sflash. This is remarkable in that an algorithm recommended by an EU authority was completely broken within a few years.

The developers of Sflash then suggested changes to prevent the attack.

Web links

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  1. http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/211.pdf
  2. https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/nessie/deliverables/press_release_feb27.pdf
  3. http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/141.pdf
  4. http://eprint.iacr.org/2007/366