Description
The Module Learning With Errors (MLWE) problem is the fundamental hardness assumption underlying the key encapsulation and signature schemes ML-KEM and ML-DSA, which have been selected by NIST for post-quantum cryptography standardization. Understanding its quantum hardness is crucial for assessing the security of these standardized schemes.
Inspired by the equivalence between LWE and Extrapolated Dihedral Cosets Problem (EDCP) in [Brakerski, Kirshanova, Stehlé and Wen, PKC 2018], we show that the MLWE problem is as hard as a structured variant of the EDCP, which we refer to as the Integer Polynomial Module EDCP (IP-M-EDCP). This extension from EDCP to IP-M-EDCP relies crucially on the algebraic structure of the ring underlying MLWE: the extrapolation depends not only on the noise rate, but also on the ring’s degree. In fact, an IP-M-EDCP state forms a superposition over an exponential (in ring degree) number of possibilities. Our equivalence result holds for MLWE defined over power-of-two cyclotomic rings with constant module rank, a setting of particular relevance in cryptographic applications. Moreover, we present a reduction from IP-M-EDCP to EDCP. Therefore, to analyze the quantum hardness of MLWE, it may be advantageous to study IP-M-EDCP which might be easier than EDCP.
Infos pratiques
Prochains exposés
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Dissecting CRAFT, a full-round attack
Orateur : Eran Lambooij - Inria
I will present the first full-round key recovery attack on CRAFT, a block cipher introduced at ToSC 2019. The attack builds on the previous observation (ToSC 2026) that the state of CRAFT can be decomposed into two parts that barely exchange information. We transform this property into a dissection attack on the full-round cipher. This shows that in some cases we can elevate the dissection attack[…]-
Cryptography
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Key Attack on the ACDGV Matrix Encryption Scheme
Orateur : Anmoal Porwal - Technical University of Munich
I will present our key-recovery attack on the ACDGV public-key encryption scheme proposed at ASIACRYPT 2024 by Aragon, Couvreur, Dyseryn, Gaborit, and Vinçotte. The secret key is a Gabidulin code hidden by appending random rows and columns and by left- and right-multiplication with invertible matrices. Our attack exploits the resulting algebraic structure to recover an equivalent secret key. It[…]-
Cryptography
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Asymmetric primitive
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