Paper 2004/286

Generalized compact knapsacks, cyclic lattices, and efficient one-way functions from worst-case complexity assumptions

Daniele Micciancio

Abstract

We investigate the average case complexity of a generalization of the compact knapsack problem to arbitrary rings: given $m$ (random) ring elements a_1,...,a_m in R and a (random) target value b in R, find coefficients x_1,...,x_m in S (where S is an appropriately chosen subset of R) such that a_1*x_1 + ... + a_m*x_m = b. We consider compact versions of the generalized knapsack where the set S is large and the number of weights m is small. Most variants of this problem considered in the past (e.g., when R = Z is the ring of the integers) can be easily solved in polynomial time even in the worst case. We propose a new choice of the ring R and subset S that yields generalized compact knapsacks that are seemingly very hard to solve on the average, even for very small values of m. Namely, we prove that for any unbounded function m = omega(1) with arbitrarily slow growth rate, solving our generalized compact knapsack problems on the average is at least as hard as the worst-case instance of various approximation problems over cyclic lattices. Specific worst-case lattice problems considered in this paper are the shortest independent vector problem SIVP and the guaranteed distance decoding problem GDD (a variant of the closest vector problem, CVP) for approximation factors n^{1+epsilon} almost linear in the dimension of the lattice. Our results yield very efficient and provably secure one-way functions (based on worst-case complexity assumptions) with key size and time complexity almost linear in the security parameter n. Previous constructions with similar security guarantees required quadratic key size and computation time. Our results can also be formulated as a connection between the worst-case and average-case complexity of various lattice problems over cyclic and quasi-cyclic lattices.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PS
Category
Foundations
Publication info
Published elsewhere. A preliminary version of this paper appears in Proc. of FOCS 2002
Keywords
compact knapsackone-way functionslattice techniquescomplexity theorycyclic latticesaverage-caseworst-case connection
Contact author(s)
daniele @ cs ucsd edu
History
2004-11-03: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2004/286
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2004/286,
      author = {Daniele Micciancio},
      title = {Generalized compact knapsacks, cyclic lattices, and efficient one-way functions from worst-case complexity assumptions},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2004/286},
      year = {2004},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/286}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/286}
}
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