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• Mon, 26 Sep 2022 13:00 On Codes and Learning With Errors over Function Fields by Maxime Bombar (École Polytechnique & Inria)

It is a long standing open problem in code-based cryptography to find search to decision reductions for structured versions of the decoding problem (e.g. for quasi-cyclic codes). Such results in the lattice-based setting have been carried out using number fields: Polynomial-LWE, Ring-LWE, Module-LWE ...

In this talk, I will present a function field analogue of the LWE problem. This new framework leads to another point of view on structured codes, strengthening the connections between lattice-based and code-based cryptography.

This framework can be instantiated with function field analogues of the cyclotomic number fields, namely Carlitz extensions, leading to the first search to decision reductions on various structured versions of the decoding problem, and Ring-LPN, which have applications to secure multi party computation. and to an authentication protocol.

This is a joint work with Alain Couvreur and Thomas Debris-Alazard.

Speaker Bio:

Maxime is a PhD student at LIX (Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École Polytechnique) & Inria, France. He is interested in the hardness of various problems related to algebraically structured codes (either in the Hamming or the rank metric).

Venue: Online
• Mon, 11 Jul 2022 13:00 Lattice-Based Zero-Knowledge Proofs and Applications: Shorter, Simpler, and More General by Ngoc Khanh Nguyen (IBM Research and ETH Zurich)

We present a much-improved practical protocol, based on the hardness of Module-SIS and Module-LWE problems, for proving knowledge of a short vector s satisfying As = t mod q. The currently most-efficient technique for constructing such a proof works by showing that the L_\infty norm of sis small using CRT slots technique (Esgin et al., Asiacrypt 2020). In this work, we show that there is a more direct and more efficient way to prove that s has a small L_2 norm which does not require an equivocation with the L_\infty norm, nor any conversion to the CRT representation. We observe that the inner product between two vectors r and s can be made to appear as a coefficient of a product (or sum of products) between polynomials with coefficient vectors r and s. Thus, by using a polynomial product proof system and hiding all but one coefficient, we can prove knowledge of the inner product of two vectors (or of a vector with itself) modulo q. Using a cheap, "approximate range proof", one can then lift the proof to be over Z instead of Zq. Our protocols for proving short norms work over all (interesting) polynomial rings but are particularly efficient for rings like Z[X]/(X^n+1) in which the function relating the inner product of vectors and polynomial products happens to be a "nice" automorphism.

The new proof system can be plugged into constructions of various lattice-based privacy primitives in a black-box manner. As examples, we instantiate a verifiable encryption scheme and a group signature scheme which are more than twice as compact as the previously best solutions.

Speaker Bio:

Ngoc Khanh Nguyen is a fourth-year PhD student at IBM Research Europe - Zurich and ETH Zurich, Switzerland, supervised by Dr Vadim Lyubashevsky and Prof. Dennis Hofheinz. Previously, Khanh obtained his B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 27 Jun 2022 13:00 Anonymity of NIST PQC Round-3 KEMs by Keita Xagawa (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories)

This paper investigates anonymity of all NIST PQC Round~3 KEMs: Classic McEliece, Kyber, NTRU, Saber, BIKE, FrodoKEM, HQC, NTRU Prime (Streamlined NTRU Prime and NTRU LPRime), and SIKE.

We show the following results:

• NTRU is anonymous in the quantum random oracle model (QROM) if the underlying deterministic PKE is strongly disjoint-simulatable. NTRU is collision-free in the QROM. A hybrid PKE scheme constructed from NTRU as KEM and appropriate DEM is anonymous and robust. (Similar results for BIKE, FrodoKEM, HQC, NTRU LPRime, and SIKE hold except for one of three parameter sets of HQC.)
• Classic McEliece is anonymous in the QROM if the underlying PKE is strongly disjoint-simulatable and a hybrid PKE scheme constructed from it as KEM and appropriate DEM is anonymous.
• Grubbs, Maram, and Paterson pointed out that Kyber and Saber have a gap in the current IND-CCA security proof in the QROM (EUROCRYPT 2022).

We found that Streamlined NTRU Prime has another technical obstacle for the IND-CCA security proof in the QROM.

Those answer the open problem to investigate the anonymity and robustness of NIST PQC Round~3 KEMs posed by Grubbs, Maram, and Paterson (EUROCRYPT 2022). We use strong disjoint-simulatability of the underlying PKE of KEM and strong pseudorandomness and smoothness/sparseness of KEM as the main tools, which will be of independent interest.

The full paper is available at https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1323

Speaker Bio:

Keita Xagawa received his B.S. degree from Kyoto University and M.S. and D.S. degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2005, 2007, and 2010, respectively. He joined NTT Corporation in 2010.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:00 Rigorous computation of class group and unit group by Alice Pellet-Mary (CNRS, Université de Bordeaux)

Computing the class group and the unit group of a number field is an important problem of algorithmic number theory. Recently, it has also become an important problem in cryptography, since it is used in multiple algorithms solving the shortest vector problem in ideal lattices.

Subexponential algorithms (in the discriminant of the number field) are known to solve this problem in any number fields, but they heavily rely on heuristics. The only non-heuristic known algorithm, due to Hafner and McCurley, is restricted to imaginary quadratic number fields.

In this talk, I will present a rigorous subexponential algorithm computing units and class group (and more generally T-units) in any number field, assuming the extended Riemann hypothesis.

This is a joint work with Koen de Boer and Benjamin Wesolowski.

Speaker Bio:

Alice is a CNRS researcher (chargée de recherche) at the university of Bordeaux. She is part of the Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux (IMB) and of the Lfant inria team. She is interested in lattice based cryptography, and more specifically in the hardness of algorithmic problems related to algebraically structured lattices.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 16 May 2022 13:00 Anonymous, Robust Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption by Varun Maram (Dept. of Computer Science, ETH Zurich)

A core goal of the NIST PQC competition is to produce public-key encryption (PKE) schemes which, even if attacked with a large-scale quantum computer, maintain the security guarantees needed by applications. The main security focus in the NIST PQC context has been IND-CCA security, but other applications demand that PKE schemes provide anonymity (Bellare et al., ASIACRYPT 2001), and robustness (Abdalla et al., TCC 2010). Examples of such applications include anonymous communication systems, cryptocurrencies, anonymous credentials, searchable encryption, and auction protocols. Almost nothing is known about how to build post-quantum PKE schemes offering these security properties. In particular, the status of the NIST PQC candidates with respect to anonymity and robustness is unknown.

In this work, we initiate a systematic study of anonymity and robustness for post-quantum PKE schemes. Firstly, we identify implicit rejection as a crucial design choice shared by most post-quantum KEMs, show that implicit rejection renders prior results on anonymity and robustness for KEM-DEM PKEs inapplicable, and transfer prior results to the implicit-rejection setting where possible. Secondly, since they are widely used to build post-quantum PKEs, we examine how the Fujisaki-Okamoto (FO) transforms (Fujisaki and Okamoto, Journal of Cryptology 2013) confer robustness and enhance weak anonymity of a base PKE.

We then leverage our theoretical results to study the anonymity and robustness of three NIST KEM finalists---Saber, Kyber, and Classic McEliece---and one alternate, FrodoKEM. Overall, our findings for robustness are definitive: we provide positive robustness results for Saber, Kyber, and FrodoKEM, and a negative result for Classic McEliece. Our negative result stems from a striking property of KEM-DEM PKE schemes built with the Classic McEliece KEM: for any message $m$, we can construct a single hybrid ciphertext $c$ which decrypts to the chosen $m$ under any Classic McEliece private key.

Our findings for anonymity are more mixed: we identify barriers to proving anonymity for Saber, Kyber, and Classic McEliece. We also found that in the case of Saber and Kyber, these barriers lead to issues with their IND-CCA security claims. We have worked with the Saber and Kyber teams to fix these issues, but they remain unresolved. On the positive side, we were able to prove anonymity for FrodoKEM and a variant of Saber introduced by D'Anvers et al. (AFRICACRYPT 2018). Our analyses of these two schemes also identified technical gaps in their IND-CCA security claims, but we were able to fix them.

This is a joint work with Paul Grubbs (University of Michigan) and Kenneth G. Paterson (ETH Zurich).

Speaker Bio:

Varun Maram is a third-year PhD student in the Applied Cryptography group at ETH Zurich, supervised by Prof. Kenny Paterson. His current research interests lie in the area of post-quantum cryptography, both in the asymmetric and symmetric settings. Varun is also one of the primary submitters of "Classic McEliece", a finalist algorithm for PKE and key-establishment in the NIST PQC standardization process.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 02 May 2022 15:30 Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge from Sub-exponential DDH by Zhengzhong Jin (Johns Hopkins University)

We provide the first constructions of non-interactive zero-knowledge and Zap arguments for NP based on the sub-exponential hardness of Decisional Diffie-Hellman against polynomial time adversaries (without use of groups with pairings).

Central to our results, and of independent interest, is a new notion of interactive trapdoor hashing protocols.

Speaker Bio:

I have a broad interest in Theoretical Computer Science. Currently, I am working on Cryptography and Coding Theory. I am a fifth year Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, fortunately co-advised by Abhishek Jain and Xin Li.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:00 Public-Key Encryption from Continuous LWE by Charlotte Hoffmann (IST Austria)

The continuous learning with errors (CLWE) problem was recently introduced by Bruna et al. (STOC 2021). They showed that its hardness implies infeasibility of learning Gaussian mixture models, while its tractability implies efficient Discrete Gaussian Sampling and thus asymptotic improvements in worst-case lattice algorithms. No reduction between CLWE and LWE is currently known, in either direction.

We propose four public-key encryption schemes based on the hardness of CLWE, with varying tradeoffs between decryption and security errors, and different discretization techniques. Some of our schemes are based on hCLWE, a homogeneous variant, which is no easier than CLWE. Our schemes yield a polynomial-time algorithm for solving hCLWE, and hence also CLWE, using a Statistical Zero-Knowledge oracle.

This is joint work with Andrej Bogdanov, Miguel Cueto Noval and Alon Rosen. E-print: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/093

Speaker Bio:

Charlotte is a PhD student in the Cryptography group at IST Austria under the supervision of Krzysztof Pietrzak.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:30 Classical vs Quantum Random Oracles by Takashi Yamakawa (NTT Social Informatics Laboratories)

In this paper, we study relationship between security of cryptographic schemes in the random oracle model (ROM) and quantum random oracle model (QROM). First, we introduce a notion of a proof of quantum access to a random oracle (PoQRO), which is a protocol to prove the capability to quantumly access a random oracle to a classical verifier. We observe that a proof of quantumness recently proposed by Brakerski et al. (TQC '20) can be seen as a PoQRO. We also give a construction of a publicly verifiable PoQRO relative to a classical oracle. Based on them, we construct digital signature and public key encryption schemes that are secure in the ROM but insecure in the QROM. In particular, we obtain the first examples of natural cryptographic schemes that separate the ROM and QROM under a standard cryptographic assumption.

On the other hand, we give lifting theorems from security in the ROM to that in the QROM for certain types of cryptographic schemes and security notions. For example, our lifting theorems are applicable to Fiat-Shamir non-interactive arguments, Fiat-Shamir signatures, and Full-Domain-Hash signatures etc. We also discuss applications of our lifting theorems to quantum query complexity.

Speaker Bio:

Takashi Yamakawa is a researcher at NTT in Japan. He earned his PhD in Science from The University of Tokyo in 2017.His research focuses on post-quantum and quantum cryptography.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:00 On the Lattice Isomorphism Problem, Quadratic Forms, Remarkable Lattices, and Cryptography by Wessel van Woerden (CWI, Cryptology Group)

A natural and recurring idea in the knapsack/lattice cryptography literature is to start from a lattice with remarkable decoding capability as your private key, and hide it somehow to make a public key. This is also how the code-based encryption scheme of McEliece (1978) proceeds.

This idea has never worked out very well for lattices: ad-hoc approaches have been proposed, but they have been subject to ad-hoc attacks, using tricks beyond lattice reduction algorithms. On the other hand the framework offered by the Short Integer Solution (SIS) and Learning With Errors (LWE) problems, while convenient and well founded, remains frustrating from a coding perspective: the underlying decoding algorithms are rather trivial, with poor decoding performance.

In this work, we provide generic realisations of this natural idea (independently of the chosen remarkable lattice) by basing cryptography on the lattice isomorphism problem (LIP). More specifically, we provide:

• a worst-case to average-case reduction for search-LIP and distinguish-LIP within an isomorphism class, by extending techniques of Haviv and Regev (SODA 2014).

• a zero-knowledge proof of knowledge (ZKPoK) of an isomorphism. This implies an identification scheme based on search-LIP.

• a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) scheme and a hash-then-sign signature scheme, both based on distinguish-LIP.

The purpose of this approach is for remarkable lattices to improve the security and performance of lattice-based cryptography. For example, decoding within poly-logarithmic factor from Minkowski's bound in a remarkable lattice would lead to a KEM resisting lattice attacks down to a poly-logarithmic approximation factor, provided that the dual lattice is also close to Minkowski's bound. Recent works have indeed reached such decoders for certain lattices (Chor-Rivest, Barnes-Sloan), but these do not perfectly fit our need as their duals have poor minimal distance.

Speaker Bio:

Wessel is a PhD student in the Cryptology Group at CWI in Amsterdam under the supervision of Léo Ducas.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:00 Log-S-unit lattices using Explicit Stickelberger Generators to solve Approx Ideal-SVP by Olivier BERNARD (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA and Thales, Gennevilliers, France)

In 2020, Bernard and Roux-Langlois introduced the Twisted-PHS algorithm to solve Approx-SVP for ideal lattices on any number field, based on the PHS algorithm by Pellet-Mary, Hanrot and Stehlé in 2019. They performed experiments for prime conductors cyclotomic fields of degrees at most 70, reporting approximation factors reached in practice. The main obstacle for these experiments is the computation of a log-$\mathcal{S}$-unit lattice, which requires classical subexponential time.

In this paper, our main contribution is to extend these experiments to 210 cyclotomic fields of any conductor $m$ and of degree up to 210. Building upon new results from Bernard and Ku{\v{c}}era on the Stickelberger ideal, we construct a maximal set of independent $\mathcal{S}$-units lifted from the maximal real subfield using explicit Stickelberger generators obtained via Jacobi sums. Hence, we obtain full-rank log-$\mathcal{S}$-unit sublattices fulfilling the role of approximating the full Tw-PHS lattice. Notably, our obtained approximation factors match those from Bernard and Roux-Langlois using the original log-$\mathcal{S}$-unit lattice in small dimensions.

As a side result, we use the knowledge of these explicit Stickelberger elements to remove almost all quantum steps in the CDW algorithm, by Cramer, Ducas and Wesolowski in 2021, under the mild restriction that the plus part of the class number verifies $h^{+}_{m}\leq O(\sqrt{m})$.

The full paper is available on ePrint:2021/1384. This is joint work with Andrea Lesavourey, Tuong-Huy Nguyen and Adeline Roux-Langlois.

Speaker Bio:

Olivier BERNARD is a research engineer at the cryptology laboratory of Thales, Gennevilliers, and is currently in the third year of a part-time PhD under the supervision of Pierre-Alain Fouque and Adeline Roux-Langlois. His research interests mainly focus on number theoretic cryptanalyses and more generally on algorithmic number theory.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:00 Lattice sieving via quantum random walks by Johanna Loyer (Inria)

Lattice-based cryptography is one of the leading proposals for post-quantum cryptography. The Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) is arguably the most important problem for the cryptanalysis of latticebased cryptography, and many lattice-based schemes have security claims based on its hardness. The best quantum algorithm for the SVP is due to Laarhoven [Laa16 PhD thesis] and runs in (heuristic) time $d^{0.2653d+o(d)}$. We present an improvement over Laarhoven’s result and present an algorithm that has a (heuristic) running time of $d^{0.2570d+o(d)}$ where $d$ is the lattice dimension. We also present time-memory trade-offs where we quantify the amount of quantum memory and quantum random access memory of our algorithm. The core idea is to replace Grover’s algorithm used in [Laa16 PhD thesis] in a key part of the sieving algorithm by a quantum random walk in which we add a layer of local sensitive filtering.

Speaker Bio:

2nd year PhD student at Inria Paris advised by André Chailloux.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 13 Dec 2021 13:00 On the (in)security of ROS by Michele Orrù (UC Berkeley)

We present an algorithm solving the ROS (Random inhomogeneities in a Overdetermined Solvable system of linear equations) problem in polynomial time for $\ell > \log p$ dimensions. Our algorithm can be combined with Wagner’s attack, and leads to a sub-exponential solution for any dimension $\ell$ with best complexity known so far. When concurrent executions are allowed, our algorithm leads to practical attacks against unforgeability of blind signature schemes such as Schnorr and Okamoto–Schnorr blind signatures, threshold signatures such as GJKR and the original version of FROST, multisignatures such as CoSI and the two-round version of MuSig, partially blind signatures such as Abe–Okamoto, and conditional blind signatures such as ZGP17.

This is joint work with Fabrice Benhamouda, Tancrède Lepoint, Julian Loss, Mariana Raykova.

Speaker Bio:

Michele is a postdoc at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Alessandro Chiesa.

Prior to that, he was a PhD student at École Normale Supérieure, under the supervision of Georg Fuchsbauer. He is interested in the intersection between authentication and anonymity.

In the past, he contributed to Python, Debian, and Tor.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:30 Does Fiat-Shamir Require a Cryptographic Hash Function by Willy Quach (Northeastern University)

The Fiat-Shamir transform is a general method for reducing interaction in public-coin protocols by replacing the random verifier messages with deterministic hashes of the protocol transcript. The soundness of this transformation is usually heuristic and lacks a formal security proof. Instead, to argue security, one can rely on the random oracle methodology, which informally states that whenever a random oracle soundly instantiates Fiat-Shamir, a hash function that is sufficiently unstructured'' (such as fixed-length SHA-2) should suffice. Finally, for some special interactive protocols, it is known how to (1) isolate a concrete security property of a hash function that suffices to instantiate Fiat-Shamir and (2) build a hash function satisfying this property under a cryptographic assumption such as Learning with Errors.

In this work, we abandon this methodology and ask whether Fiat-Shamir truly requires a cryptographic hash function. Perhaps surprisingly, we show that in two of its most common applications --- building signature schemes as well as (general-purpose) non-interactive zero-knowledge arguments --- there are sound Fiat-Shamir instantiations using extremely simple and non-cryptographic hash functions such as sum-mod-$p$ or bit decomposition. In some cases, we make idealized assumptions (i.e., we invoke the generic group model), while in others, we prove soundness in the plain model.

On the negative side, we also identify important cases in which a cryptographic hash function is provably necessary to instantiate Fiat-Shamir. We hope this work leads to an improved understanding of the precise role of the hash function in the Fiat-Shamir transformation.

Joint work with Yilei Chen, Alex Lombardi and Fermi Ma. Eprint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/915

Speaker Bio:

Willy Quach is a 5th year PhD student at Northeastern University advised by Daniel Wichs.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:00 Compressed Σ-Protocol Theory by Thomas Attema (TNO & CWI)

Σ-Protocols provide a well-understood basis for secure algorithmics. Compressed Σ-protocol theory (CRYPTO 2020) was introduced as a strengthening yielding protocols with low communication complexity. It is built around basic Σ-protocols for proving that a compactly committed (long) vector satisfies a linear constraint. The communication complexity of these protocols is first compressed, from linear down to logarithmic, using a recursive folding-technique'' adapted from Bulletproofs (Bootle et al., EUROCRYPT 2016, and Bünz et al., S&P 2018), at the expense of logarithmic rounds. Proving in ZK that the secret vector satisfies a given constraint -- captured by a (non-linear) circuit -- is then by (blackbox) reduction to the linear case, via arithmetic secret-sharing techniques adapted from MPC.

This abstract modular theory has been instantiated from a variety of cryptographic hardness assumptions, i.e., the discrete-logarithm, strong-RSA, knowledge-of-exponent assumption. In two separate works, it has also been generalized to a bilinear circuit model and instantiated from the ring-SIS assumption. Thus for all these platforms compressed Σ-protocol theory yields circuit zero-knowledge protocols with (poly)-logarithmic communication.

All in all, our theory should more generally be useful for modular (plug-&-play'') design of practical cryptographic protocols; this is further evidenced by our separate work on proofs of partial knowledge.

Joint work with: Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Lisa Kohl and Matthieu Rambaud

Note the changed time.

Speaker Bio:

Thomas Attema is a researcher at the applied research institute TNO in The Netherlands, where he works on (applied) multi-party computation, zero-knowledge proof systems and post-quantum cryptography. Moreover, he is pursuing a part-time PhD in the Cryptology group of CWI under the supervision of Ronald Cramer.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 04 Oct 2021 15:00 On the Security of Homomorphic Encryption on Approximate Numbers by Baiyu Li (UCSD)

In this talk, we study the passive security model of approximate homomorphic encryption schemes. We present new passive security definitions for homomorphic encryption in the approximate computation setting, by naturally extending the traditional notion of IND-CPA security. We propose both indistinguishability-based and simulation-based variants, as well as restricted versions of the definitions that limit the order and number of adversarial queries (as may be enforced by some applications). We prove implications and separations among different definitional variants, showing a hierarchy of approximate homomorphic encryption schemes. Our models provide a solid theoretical basis for the security evaluation of approximate homomorphic encryption schemes (against passive attacks).

As the main application of our passive security models, we present passive attacks against CKKS, the homomorphic encryption scheme for arithmetic on approximate numbers presented at Asiacrypt 2017. The attack is both theoretically efficient (running in expected polynomial time) and very practical, leading to complete key recovery with high probability and very modest running times. We implemented and tested the attack against major open source homomorphic encryption libraries, including HEAAN, SEAL, HElib, PALISADE and Lattigo, and when computing several functions that often arise in applications of the CKKS scheme to privacy-preserving machine learning. Our attack shows that the traditional formulation of IND-CPA security (or indistinguishability against chosen plaintext attacks) achieved by CKKS does not adequately capture security against passive adversaries when applied to approximate encryption schemes, and that a different, stronger definition is required to evaluate the security of such schemes.

We further discuss possible modifications to CKKS that may serve as countermeasures to our attacks, and we also discuss open problems of efficiently achieving provable security under our new definitions.

This talk is based on the joint work with Daniele Micciancio.

Speaker Bio:

Baiyu Li graduated with a Ph.D. degree from UCSD in 2021, advised by Daniele Micciancio. His research interests include formal methods for secure computation protocol design and analysis, as well as lattice-based cryptography. Previously he received his Master's and Bachelor's degrees in CS and Pure Math from the University of Waterloo.

Venue: Online
• Mon, 20 Sep 2021 13:00 Quantum Reduction of Finding Short Code Vectors to the Decoding Problem by Thomas Debris-Alazard (Inria Sacaly)

In this talk we will give a quantum reduction from finding short codewords in a random linear code to decoding for the Hamming metric. This is the first time such a reduction (classical or quantum) has been obtained. Our reduction adapts to linear codes Stehlé-Steinfield-Tanaka-Xagawa’ re-interpretation of Regev’s quantum reduction from finding short lattice vectors to solving the Closest Vector Problem. The Hamming metric is a much coarser metric than the Euclidean metric and this adaptation has needed several new ingredients to make it work. For instance, in order to have a meaningful reduction it is necessary in the Hamming metric to choose a very large decoding radius and this needs in many cases to go beyond the radius where decoding is unique. Another crucial step for the analysis of the reduction is the choice of the errors that are being fed to the decoding algorithm. For lattices, errors are usually sampled according to a Gaussian distribution. However, it turns out that the Bernoulli distribution (the analogue for codes of the Gaussian) is too much spread out and can not be used for the reduction with codes. Instead we choose here the uniform distribution over errors of a fixed weight and bring in orthogonal polynomials tools to perform the analysis and an additional amplitude amplification step to obtain the aforementioned result.

The seminar will be at 13:00 UK time, 14:00 FR time

Speaker Bio:

Thomas Debris-Alazard is a research scientist (chargé de recherche) at Inria in the Grace project-team. He was previously a postdoctoral research assistant in the Information Security Group under the supervision of Martin R. Albrecht. He received his PhD from Inria under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Tillich.

Venue: Online