### Practical complexities of probabilistic algorithms for solving Boolean polynomial systems

Stefano Barbero, Emanuele Bellini, Carlo Sanna, and Javier Verbel

##### Abstract

Solving a polynomial system over a finite field is an NP-complete problem of fundamental importance in both pure and applied mathematics. In~particular, the security of the so-called multivariate public-key cryptosystems, such as HFE of Patarin and UOV of Kipnis et~al., is based on the postulated hardness of solving quadratic polynomial systems over a finite field. Lokshtanov et al.~(2017) were the first to introduce a probabilistic algorithm that, in the worst-case, solves a Boolean polynomial system in time $O^{*}(2^{\delta n})$, for some $\delta \in (0, 1)$ depending only on the degree of the system, thus beating the brute-force complexity $O^{*}(2^n)$. Later, B\"jorklund et al.~(2019) and then Dinur~(2021) improved this method and devised probabilistic algorithms with a smaller exponent coefficient $\delta$. We survey the theory behind these probabilistic algorithms, and we illustrate the results that we obtained by implementing them in C. In~particular, for random quadratic Boolean systems, we estimate the practical complexities of the algorithms and their probabilities of success as their parameters change.

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Implementation
Publication info
Published elsewhere. MINOR revision.Discrete Applied Mathematics
DOI
10.1016/j.dam.2021.11.014
Keywords
implementationBoolean quadratic polynomial systemspolynomial methodprobabilistic algorithm
Contact author(s)
eemanuele bellini @ gmail com
History
2021-11-27: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/913

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/913,
author = {Stefano Barbero and Emanuele Bellini and Carlo Sanna and Javier Verbel},
title = {Practical complexities of probabilistic algorithms for solving Boolean polynomial systems},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/913},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1016/j.dam.2021.11.014},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/913}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/913}
}

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