International Association
for Cryptologic Research

Graded multilinear encodings have found extensive applications in cryptography ranging from

non-interactive key exchange protocols, to broadcast and attribute-based encryption, and even to software obfuscation.

Despite seemingly unlimited applicability, essentially only two candidate constructions are known (GGH and CLT). In this work, we describe a new graded multilinear encoding scheme from lattices.

Our construction encodes Learning With Errors (LWE) samples

in short square matrices of higher dimensions. Addition and multiplication of the encodings corresponds naturally to addition and multiplication

of the LWE secrets. Comparisons of any two encodings

can be performed publicly at any level.

The security of our scheme relies on a hardness of a natural problem which can be thought of as analogous to standard LWE problem.