Paper 2016/380

Parallel Implementation of BDD enumeration for LWE

Elena Kirshanova, Alexander May, and Friedrich Wiemer

Abstract

One of the most attractive problems for post-quantum secure cryptographic schemes is the LWE problem. Beside combinatorial and algebraic attacks, LWE can be solved by a lattice-based Bounded Distance Decoding (BDD) approach. We provide the first parallel implementation of an enumeration-based BDD algorithm that employs the Lindner-Peikert and Linear Length pruning strategies. We ran our algorithm on a large variety of LWE parameters, from which we derive the following interesting results. First, our parallel enumeration achieves almost perfect speed-up, which allows us to provide for the first time practical cryptanalytic results on standard LWE parameters of meaningful size. Second, we conclude that lattice-based attacks perform better than recent advanced BKW-type algorithms even for small noise, while requiring way less samples. Third, we experimentally show weaknesses for a binary matrix LWE proposal of Galbraith.

Note: Renamed title of publication to match pdf title.

Metadata
Available format(s)
PDF
Category
Implementation
Publication info
Published elsewhere. ACNS 2016 - 14th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security
Keywords
cryptanalysisimplementationlattice techniques
Contact author(s)
friedrich wiemer @ rub de
History
2016-06-03: revised
2016-04-14: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/380
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/380,
      author = {Elena Kirshanova and Alexander May and Friedrich Wiemer},
      title = {Parallel Implementation of BDD enumeration for LWE},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/380},
      year = {2016},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/380}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/380}
}
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