Description
The use of SAT solvers is enjoying a boom in the area of cryptanalysis. In this presentation we explore the reasons for the efficiency of SAT solvers in this field. The presentation will describe how SAT solvers' variable branching heuristics, conflict analysis routines and lazy data structures work in unison to create a complex algorithm that can tackle difficult problems with relative ease. During the presentation, we give examples to highlight the advantages and disadvantages of each component of the final algorithm.
Next sessions
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Algorithms for post-quantum commutative group actions
Speaker : Marc Houben - Inria Bordeaux
At the historical foundation of isogeny-based cryptography lies a scheme known as CRS; a key exchange protocol based on class group actions on elliptic curves. Along with more efficient variants, such as CSIDH, this framework has emerged as a powerful building block for the construction of advanced post-quantum cryptographic primitives. Unfortunately, all protocols in this line of work are[…] -
Endomorphisms via Splittings
Speaker : Min-Yi Shen - No Affiliation
One of the fundamental hardness assumptions underlying isogeny-based cryptography is the problem of finding a non-trivial endomorphism of a given supersingular elliptic curve. In this talk, we show that the problem is related to the problem of finding a splitting of a principally polarised superspecial abelian surface. In particular, we provide formal security reductions and a proof-of-concept[…]-
Cryptography
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