Paper 2024/611 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2024/611 ↗

A Security Analysis of Restricted Syndrome Decoding Problems

Ward Beullens
Pierre Briaud
Morten Øygarden
Abstract

Restricted syndrome decoding problems (R-SDP and R-SDP($G$)) provide an interesting basis for post-quantum cryptography. Indeed, they feature in CROSS, a submission in the ongoing process for standardizing post-quantum signatures. This work improves our understanding of the security of both problems. Firstly, we propose and implement a novel collision attack on R-SDP($G$) that provides the best attack under realistic restrictions on memory. Secondly, we derive precise complexity estimates for algebraic attacks on R-SDP that are shown to be accurate by our experiments. We note that neither of these improvements threatens the updated parameters of CROSS.

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Category
Attacks and cryptanalysis
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2024-04-21: last updated
2024-04-21: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2024/611
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2024/611,
      author = {Ward Beullens and Pierre Briaud and Morten Øygarden},
      title = {A Security Analysis of Restricted Syndrome Decoding Problems},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2024/611},
      year = {2024},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/611}
}
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