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Title:
Discrete Ziggurat: A Time-Memory Trade-off for Sampling from a Gaussian Distribution over the Integers
Authors: Johannes Buchmann, Daniel Cabarcas, Florian Göpfert, Andreas Hülsing, Patrick Weiden
Abstract:Several lattice-based cryptosystems require to sample from a discrete Gaussian distribution over the integers. Existing methods to sample from such a distribution either need large amounts of memory or they are very slow. In this paper we explore a different method that allows for a flexible time-memory trade-off, offering developers freedom in choosing how much space they can spare to store precomputed values. We prove that the generated distribution is close enough to a discrete Gaussian to be used in lattice-based cryptography. Moreover, we report on an implementation of the method and compare its performance to existing methods from the literature. We show that for large standard deviations, the Ziggurat algorithm outperforms all existing methods.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/510
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