Eirini D. Poimenidou, Marios Adamoudis, K. A. Draziotis, Kostas Tsichlas
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Abstract
In the present paper, we introduce a message recovery attack applicable to NTRU cryptosystem. Our methodology uses a reduction from the NTRU-lattice to a Voronoi First Kind (VFK) lattice, enabling the use of a polynomial Closest Vector Problem (CVP) exact algorithm, which is vital for successful message recovery. This approach assumes knowledge of the Most Significant Bit of the coefficients of a polynomial that is a multiple of the nonce. Finally, extensive experimental results for the NTRU-HPS variants submitted to NIST are presented. The findings highlight the need to properly protect NTRU schemes against potential leakage.
期刊介绍:
Acta Informatica provides international dissemination of articles on formal methods for the design and analysis of programs, computing systems and information structures, as well as related fields of Theoretical Computer Science such as Automata Theory, Logic in Computer Science, and Algorithmics.
Topics of interest include:
• semantics of programming languages
• models and modeling languages for concurrent, distributed, reactive and mobile systems
• models and modeling languages for timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems
• specification, program analysis and verification
• model checking and theorem proving
• modal, temporal, first- and higher-order logics, and their variants
• constraint logic, SAT/SMT-solving techniques
• theoretical aspects of databases, semi-structured data and finite model theory
• theoretical aspects of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, description logic
• automata theory, formal languages, term and graph rewriting
• game-based models, synthesis
• type theory, typed calculi
• algebraic, coalgebraic and categorical methods
• formal aspects of performance, dependability and reliability analysis
• foundations of information and network security
• parallel, distributed and randomized algorithms
• design and analysis of algorithms
• foundations of network and communication protocols.