### Lattice Decoding Attacks on Binary LWE

Shi Bai and Steven D. Galbraith

##### Abstract

We consider the binary-LWE problem, which is the learning with errors problem when the entries of the secret vector are chosen from $\{ 0, 1\}$ or $\{ -1, 0, 1 \}$ (and the error vector is sampled from a discrete Gaussian distribution). Our main result is an improved lattice decoding algorithm for binary-LWE which first translates the problem to the inhomogeneous short integer solution (ISIS) problem, and then solves the closest vector problem using a re-scaling of the lattice. We also discuss modulus switching as an approach to the problem. Our conclusion is that binary-LWE is easier than general LWE. We give experimental results and theoretical estimates that can be used to choose parameters for binary-LWE to achieve certain security levels.

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Published elsewhere. MINOR revision.ACISP 2014
Keywords
lattice decoding attackslearning with errorsclosest vector problem.
Contact author(s)
shih bai @ gmail com
S Galbraith @ math auckland ac nz
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https://ia.cr/2013/839

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@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/839,
author = {Shi Bai and Steven D.  Galbraith},
title = {Lattice Decoding Attacks on Binary LWE},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2013/839},
year = {2013},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/839}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/839}
}
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