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Paper 2019/594

Cryptanalysis of Ring Homomorphic Encryption Schemes

Mugurel Barcau and Vicentiu Pasol

Abstract

We analyze the structure of finite commutative rings with respect to its idempotent and nilpotent elements. Based on this analysis we provide a quantum-classical IND-CCA^1 attack for ring homomorphic encryption schemes. Moreover, when the plaintext space is a finite reduced ring, i.e. a product of finite fields, we present a key-recovery attack based on representation problem in black-box finite fields. In particular, if the ciphertext space has smooth characteristic the key-recovery attack is effectively computable. We also extend the work of Maurer and Raub on representation problem in black-box finite fields to the case of a black-box product of finite fields of equal characteristic.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
homomorphic encryption schemesquantum computingkey-recovery attackblack-box rings
Contact author(s)
mugurel barcau @ imar ro
vicentiu pasol @ imar ro
History
2022-08-25: last of 2 revisions
2019-06-02: received
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