[Resource Topic] 2018/1068: Partial Key Exposure in Ring-LWE-Based Cryptosystems: Attacks and Resilience

Welcome to the resource topic for 2018/1068

Title:
Partial Key Exposure in Ring-LWE-Based Cryptosystems: Attacks and Resilience

Authors: Dana Dachman-Soled, Huijing Gong, Mukul Kulkarni, Aria Shahverdi

Abstract:

We initiate the study of partial key exposure in ring-LWE-based cryptosystems. Specifically, we - Introduce the search and decision Leaky-RLWE assumptions (Leaky-SRLWE, Leaky-DRLWE), to formalize the hardness of search/decision RLWE under leakage of some fraction of coordinates of the NTT transform of the RLWE secret and/or error. - Present and implement an efficient key exposure attack that, given certain 1/4-fraction of the coordinates of the NTT transform of the RLWE secret, along with RLWE instances, recovers the full RLWE secret for standard parameter settings. - Present a search-to-decision reduction for Leaky-RLWE for certain types of key exposure. - Analyze the security of NewHope key exchange under partial key exposure of 1/8-fraction of the secrets and error. We show that, assuming that Leaky-DRLWE is hard for these parameters, the shared key v (which is then hashed using a random oracle) is computationally indistinguishable from a random variable with average min-entropy 238, conditioned on transcript and leakage, whereas without leakage the min-entropy is 256.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/1068

See all topics related to this paper.

Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.

Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.

For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .