New Cryptanalysis of Prime Power RSA with Two Private Exponents

Abstract

Prime Power RSA is a variant of the RSA scheme due to Takagi with modulus N=prq for r⩾2, where p,q are of the same bit-size. In this paper, we concentrate on one type of Prime Power RSA which assumes e·d≡1modpr−1(p−1)(q−1). Two new attacks on this type of Prime Power RSA are presented when given two pairs of public and private exponents, namely, (e1,d1) and (e2,d2) with the same modulus N. Suppose that d1Nβ1,d2Nβ2. In 2015, Zheng and Hu showed that when β1β2(r−1)3/(r+1)3, N may be factored in probabilistic polynomial time. The first attack of this paper shows that one can obtain the factorization of N in probabilistic polynomial time, provided that β1β2r/(r+1)3. Later, in the second attack, we improve both the first attack and the attack of Zheng and Hu, and show that the condition β1β2r(r−1)2/(r+1)3 already suffices to break the Prime Power RSA. By introducing multiple parameters, our lattice constructions take full advantage of known information, and obtain the best known attack. Specifically, we make full use of the information that pr is a divisor of N, while the attack of Zheng and Hu only assumes that pr−1 is a divisor of N. As a consequence, this method implies a better lattice construction, and thus improves the previous attack. The experiments which reach a better upper bound than before also verify it. Our approaches are based on Coppersmith’s method for finding small roots of bivariate modular polynomial equations.

Keywords

• prime power RSA
• two private exponents
• lattice
• Coppersmith’s method
• LLL algorithm