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Picnic
- Algorithm type: signature
- Main cryptographic assumption: hash function security (ROM/QROM), key recovery attacks on the lowMC block cipher
- Scheme authors: Greg Zaverucha, Melissa Chase, David Derler, Steven Goldfeder, Claudio Orlandi, Sebastian Ramacher, Christian Rechberger, Daniel Slamanig, Jonathan Katz, Xiao Wang, Vladmir Kolesnikov
- Authors' website: https://microsoft.github.io/Picnic/
- Version: 2.2 + bug fix
- Added to liboqs by: Christian Paquin
Implementation
- Source of implementation: https://github.com/IAIK/Picnic
- Implementation version:
9917e33194(v2.2 + bug fix) - License: MIT License
- Constant-time: Yes
- Optimizations: Portable C with optional use of AVX2 and SSE2 instructions (selected at compile-time, enabled by default if available)
Parameter sets
| Parameter set | Security model | Claimed NIST security level | Public key size (bytes) | Secret key size (bytes) | Signature size (bytes) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| picnic_L1_FS | EUF-CMA | 1 | 33 | 49 | 34036 |
| picnic_L1_UR | EUF-CMA | 1 | 33 | 49 | 53965 |
| picnic_L3_FS | EUF-CMA | 3 | 49 | 73 | 76776 |
| picnic_L3_UR | EUF-CMA | 3 | 49 | 73 | 121849 |
| picnic_L5_FS | EUF-CMA | 5 | 65 | 97 | 132860 |
| picnic_L5_UR | EUF-CMA | 5 | 65 | 97 | 209510 |
| picnic2_L1_FS | EUF-CMA | 1 | 33 | 49 | 13806 |
| picnic2_L3_FS | EUF-CMA | 3 | 49 | 73 | 29754 |
| picnic2_L5_FS | EUF-CMA | 5 | 65 | 97 | 54736 |
Additional comments
The original Picnic implementation includes optimizations that are not currently being built in liboqs. See src/sig/picnic/external/README.md for details.