Paper 2023/731 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2023/731 ↗

Fast Exhaustive Search for Polynomial Systems over F3

Bo-Yin Yang
Wei-Jeng Wang
Shang-Yi Yang
Char-Shin Miou
Chen-Mou Cheng
Abstract

Solving multivariate polynomial systems over finite fields is an important problem in cryptography. For random F2 low-degree systems with equally many variables and equations, enumeration is more efficient than advanced solvers for all practical problem sizes. Whether there are others remained an open problem. We here study and propose an exhaustive-search algorithm for low degrees systems over F3 which is suitable for parallelization. We implemented it on Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) and commodity CPUs. Its optimizations and differences from the F2 case are also analyzed. We can solve 30+ quadratic equations in 30 variables on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti in 14 minutes; a cubic system takes 36 minutes. This well outperforms existing solvers. Using these results, we compare Gröbner Bases vs. enumeration for polynomial systems over small fields as the sizes go up.

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Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2023-05-22: last updated
2023-05-22: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/731
License
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/731,
      author = {Bo-Yin Yang and Wei-Jeng Wang and Shang-Yi Yang and Char-Shin Miou and Chen-Mou Cheng},
      title = {Fast Exhaustive Search for Polynomial Systems over F3},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/731},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/731}
}
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