2F - A New Method for Constructing Efficient Multivariate Encryption Schemes

The Support Minors method of solving the MinRank problem has contributed to several new cryptanalyses of post-quantum cryptosystems including some of the most efficient multivariate cryptosystems. While there are a few viable multivariate schemes that are secure against rank methods, the most prominent schemes, particularly for encryption, are not particularly efficient.

In this article we present a new generic construction for building efficient multivariate encryption schemes. Such schemes can be built from maps having rank properties that would otherwise be damaging, but are immune to traditional rank attack. We then construct one such efficient multivariate encryption scheme and show it to be about 100 times faster than other secure multivariate encryption schemes in the literature.