Paper 2023/304 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2023/304 ↗

On homomorphic encryption using abelian groups: Classical security analysis

Eleni Agathocleous
Vishnupriya Anupindi
Annette Bachmayr
Chloe Martindale
Rahinatou Yuh Njah Nchiwo
Mima Stanojkovski
Abstract

In [15], Leonardi and Ruiz-Lopez propose an additively homomorphic public key encryption scheme whose security is expected to depend on the hardness of the $\textit{learning homomorphism with noise problem}$ (LHN). Choosing parameters for their primitive requires choosing three groups $G$, $H$, and $K$. In their paper, Leonardi and Ruiz-Lopez claim that, when $G$, $H$, and $K$ are abelian, then their public-key cryptosystem is not quantum secure. In this paper, we study security for finite abelian groups $G$, $H$, and $K$ in the classical case. Moreover, we study quantum attacks on instantiations with solvable groups.

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Attacks and cryptanalysis
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Preprint.
History
2023-03-01: last updated
2023-03-01: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/304
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/304,
      author = {Eleni Agathocleous and Vishnupriya Anupindi and Annette Bachmayr and Chloe Martindale and Rahinatou Yuh Njah Nchiwo and Mima Stanojkovski},
      title = {On homomorphic encryption using abelian groups: Classical security analysis},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/304},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/304}
}
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