[Resource Topic] 2025/1393: Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem

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Title:
Polynomial Lattices for the BIKE Cryptosystem

Authors: Michael Schaller

Abstract:

In this paper we introduce a rank 2 lattice over a polynomial ring arising from the public key of the BIKE cryptosystem.
The secret key is a sparse vector in this lattice.
We study properties of this lattice and generalize the recovery of weak keys from “Weak keys for the quasi-cyclic MDPC public key encryption scheme”.
In particular, we show that they implicitly solved a shortest vector problem in the lattice we constructed.
Rather than finding only a shortest vector, we obtain a reduced basis of the lattice which makes it possible to check for more weak keys.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1393

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