Paper 2023/826

Ring/Module Learning with Errors under Linear Leakage -- Hardness and Applications

Zhedong Wang, School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qiqi Lai, School of Computer Science, Shaanxi Normal University
Feng-Hao Liu, Florida Atlantic University
Abstract

This paper studies the hardness of decision Module Learning with Errors (\MLWE) under linear leakage, which has been used as a foundation to derive more efficient lattice-based zero-knowledge proofs in a recent paradigm of Lyubashevsky, Nguyen, and Seiler (PKC 21). Unlike in the plain \LWE~setting, it was unknown whether this problem remains provably hard in the module/ring setting. This work shows a reduction from the search \MLWE~to decision \MLWE~with linear leakage. Thus, the main problem remains hard asymptotically as long as the non-leakage version of \MLWE~is hard. Additionally, we also refine the paradigm of Lyubashevsky, Nguyen, and Seiler (PKC 21) by showing a more fine-grained tradeoff between efficiency and leakage. This can lead to further optimizations of lattice proofs under the paradigm.

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Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in PKC 2024
Keywords
Ring/Module LWELinear LeakageRejection SamplingMore Efficient NIZK
Contact author(s)
wzdstill @ sjtu edu cn
laiqq @ snnu edu cn
fenghao liu @ fau edu
History
2024-04-07: last of 4 revisions
2023-06-03: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/826
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/826,
      author = {Zhedong Wang and Qiqi Lai and Feng-Hao Liu},
      title = {Ring/Module Learning with Errors under Linear Leakage -- Hardness and Applications},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/826},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/826}
}
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