Description
The problem of computing the zeta function of a variety over a finite field has attracted considerable interest in recent years, motivated in part by an application in cryptography. (In less fancy language, the problem is just to compute the number of solutions to a system of polynomial equations over a finite field.) I will discuss a new algorithm for computing zeta functions which is based upon relative p-adic cohomology. The idea is that to compute the zeta function of a single projective hypersurface, say , one puts it in a one-dimensional family of hypersurfaces. As one moves through this family, the zeta function varies in a manner which is controlled by a differential equation. One can arrange matters so that one fibre in the family has an easily computed zeta function. By solving the differential equation locally around this fibre, and using a form of analytic continuation, one can now recover the zeta function of any fibre in the family. In particular, one gets the zeta function of the original hypersurface! The key point is that because the `deformation' from the original hypersurface to the easy one is one-dimensional, the complexity of this approach is largely independent of the dimension of the hypersurface. In fact, one gets a uniform dependence on the input size over all dimensions. This contrasts starkly with existing approaches, whose performance deteriorates as the dimension increases. I believe the talk should be of interest to both cryptographers and p-adic cohomologists.
Prochains exposés
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Some applications of linear programming to Dilithium
Orateur : Paco AZEVEDO OLIVEIRA - Thales & UVSQ
Dilithium is a signature algorithm, considered post-quantum, and recently standardized under the name ML-DSA by NIST. Due to its security and performance, it is recommended in most use cases. During this presentation, I will outline the main ideas behind two studies, conducted in collaboration with Andersson Calle-Vierra, Benoît Cogliati, and Louis Goubin, which provide a better understanding of[…] -
Wagner’s Algorithm Provably Runs in Subexponential Time for SIS^∞
Orateur : Johanna Loyer - Inria Saclay
At CRYPTO 2015, Kirchner and Fouque claimed that a carefully tuned variant of the Blum-Kalai-Wasserman (BKW) algorithm (JACM 2003) should solve the Learning with Errors problem (LWE) in slightly subexponential time for modulus q = poly(n) and narrow error distribution, when given enough LWE samples. Taking a modular view, one may regard BKW as a combination of Wagner’s algorithm (CRYPTO 2002), run[…]-
Cryptography
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CryptoVerif: a computationally-sound security protocol verifier
Orateur : Bruno Blanchet - Inria
CryptoVerif is a security protocol verifier sound in the computational model of cryptography. It produces proofs by sequences of games, like those done manually by cryptographers. It has an automatic proof strategy and can also be guided by the user. It provides a generic method for specifying security assumptions on many cryptographic primitives, and can prove secrecy, authentication, and[…]-
Cryptography
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Structured-Seed Local Pseudorandom Generators and their Applications
Orateur : Nikolas Melissaris - IRIF
We introduce structured‑seed local pseudorandom generators (SSL-PRGs), pseudorandom generators whose seed is drawn from an efficiently sampleable, structured distribution rather than uniformly. This seemingly modest relaxation turns out to capture many known applications of local PRGs, yet it can be realized from a broader family of hardness assumptions. Our main technical contribution is a[…]-
Cryptography
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Predicting Module-Lattice Reduction
Orateur : Paola de Perthuis - CWI
Is module-lattice reduction better than unstructured lattice reduction? This question was highlighted as `Q8' in the Kyber NIST standardization submission (Avanzi et al., 2021), as potentially affecting the concrete security of Kyber and other module-lattice-based schemes. Foundational works on module-lattice reduction (Lee, Pellet-Mary, Stehlé, and Wallet, ASIACRYPT 2019; Mukherjee and Stephens[…]-
Cryptography
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