Paper 2022/275
Concrete Analysis of Approximate Ideal-SIVP to Decision Ring-LWE Reduction
Neal Koblitz, Subhabrata Samajder, Palash Sarkar, and Subhadip Singha
Abstract
A seminal 2013 paper by Lyubashevsky, Peikert, and Regev proposed basing post-quantum cryptography on ideal lattices and supported this proposal by giving a polynomial-time security reduction from the approximate Shortest Independent Vectors Problem (SIVP) to the Decision Learning With Errors (DLWE) problem in ideal lattices. We give a concrete analysis of this multi-step reduction. We find that the tightness gap in the reduction is so great as to vitiate any meaningful security guarantee, and we find reasons to doubt the feasibility in the foreseeable future of the quantum part of the reduction. In addition, when we make the reduction concrete it appears that the approximation factor in the SIVP problem is far larger than expected, a circumstance that causes the corresponding approximate-SIVP problem most likely not to be hard for proposed cryptosystem parameters. We also discuss implications for systems such as Kyber and SABER that are based on module-DLWE.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- ideal latticesshortest vector problemring learning with errorsconcrete analysis
- Contact author(s)
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koblitz @ uw edu
subhabrata @ iiitd ac in
palash @ isical ac in
subha_r @ isical ac in - History
- 2022-04-19: last of 4 revisions
- 2022-03-02: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/275
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/275,
author = {Neal Koblitz and Subhabrata Samajder and Palash Sarkar and Subhadip Singha},
title = {Concrete Analysis of Approximate Ideal-{SIVP} to Decision Ring-{LWE} Reduction},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/275},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/275}
}
