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The SQInstructor: a guide to SQIsign and the Deuring Correspondence with level structures

Number Theory 2026-03-11 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We explore the use of level structures to generalize the SQIsign signature scheme. We give a general framework where, given the public key and the commitment, the challenge is to exhibit an isogeny between them with an additional requirement, namely to map a chosen level structure to another. We then instantiate the framework using 1-dimensional and 2-dimensional isogenies. In doing that we provide a new explicit Deuring correspondence for supersingular elliptic curves with level structures and solve new constrained norm equations.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.09899,
  title  = {The SQInstructor: a guide to SQIsign and the Deuring Correspondence with level structures},
  author = {Giacomo Borin and Luca De Feo and Guido Maria Lido and Sina Schaeffler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.09899},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

49 pages, 6 Figures

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