## CryptoDB

### Dipayan Das

#### Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2020
PKC
We describe a digital signature scheme $mathsf {MPSign}$ , whose security relies on the conjectured hardness of the Polynomial Learning With Errors problem ( $mathsf {PLWE}$ ) for at least one defining polynomial within an exponential-size family (as a function of the security parameter). The proposed signature scheme follows the Fiat-Shamir framework and can be viewed as the Learning With Errors counterpart of the signature scheme described by Lyubashevsky at Asiacrypt 2016, whose security relies on the conjectured hardness of the Polynomial Short Integer Solution ( $mathsf {PSIS}$ ) problem for at least one defining polynomial within an exponential-size family. As opposed to the latter, $mathsf {MPSign}$ enjoys a security proof from $mathsf {PLWE}$ that is tight in the quantum-access random oracle model. The main ingredient is a reduction from $mathsf {PLWE}$ for an arbitrary defining polynomial among exponentially many, to a variant of the Middle-Product Learning with Errors problem ( $mathsf {MPLWE}$ ) that allows for secrets that are small compared to the working modulus. We present concrete parameters for $mathsf {MPSign}$ using such small secrets, and show that they lead to significant savings in signature length over Lyubashevsky’s Asiacrypt 2016 scheme (which uses larger secrets) at typical security levels. As an additional small contribution, and in contrast to $mathsf {MPSign}$ (or $mathsf {MPLWE}$ ), we present an efficient key-recovery attack against Lyubashevsky’s scheme (or the inhomogeneous $mathsf {PSIS}$ problem), when it is used with sufficiently small secrets, showing the necessity of a lower bound on secret size for the security of that scheme.
2019
ASIACRYPT
At CRYPTO 2017, Roşca et al. introduce a new variant of the Learning With Errors (LWE) problem, called the Middle-Product LWE ( ${\mathrm {MP}\text {-}\mathrm{LWE}}$ ). The hardness of this new assumption is based on the hardness of the Polynomial LWE (P-LWE) problem parameterized by a set of polynomials, making it more secure against the possible weakness of a single defining polynomial. As a cryptographic application, they also provide an encryption scheme based on the ${\mathrm {MP}\text {-}\mathrm{LWE}}$ problem. In this paper, we propose a deterministic variant of their encryption scheme, which does not need Gaussian sampling and is thus simpler than the original one. Still, it has the same quasi-optimal asymptotic key and ciphertext sizes. The main ingredient for this purpose is the Learning With Rounding (LWR) problem which has already been used to derandomize LWE type encryption. The hardness of our scheme is based on a new assumption called Middle-Product Computational Learning With Rounding, an adaption of the computational LWR problem over rings, introduced by Chen et al. at ASIACRYPT 2018. We prove that this new assumption is as hard as the decisional version of MP-LWE and thus benefits from worst-case to average-case hardness guarantees.