Paper 2024/686
Unstructured Inversions of New Hope
Abstract
Introduced as a new protocol implemented in “Chrome Canary” for the Google Inc. Chrome browser, “New Hope” is engineered as a post-quantum key exchange for the TLS 1.2 protocol. The structure of the exchange is revised lattice-based cryptography. New Hope incorporates the key-encapsulation mechanism of Peikert which itself is a modified Ring-LWE scheme. The search space used to introduce the closest-vector problem is generated by an intersection of a tesseract and hexadecachoron, or the ℓ∞- ball and ℓ1-ball respectively. This intersection results in the 24-cell 𝒱 of lattice 𝒟̃4. With respect to the density of the Voronoi cell 𝒱, the proposed mitigation against backdoor attacks proposed by the authors of New Hope may not withstand such attempts if enabled by a quantum computer capable of implementing Grover’s search algorithm.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Attacks and cryptanalysis
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- New HopeInversion OracleLunch Time AttackGrover Search
- Contact author(s)
- ijmalloy @ ole augie edu
- History
- 2024-05-06: approved
- 2024-05-04: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2024/686
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/686,
author = {Ian Malloy},
title = {Unstructured Inversions of New Hope},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/686},
year = {2024},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/686}
}
