IACR News item: 26 September 2014
Thijs Laarhoven
ePrint Report
By replacing the brute-force list search in sieving algorithms with angular locality-sensitive hashing, we get both theoretical and practical speed-ups for finding shortest vectors in lattices. Optimizing for time, we obtain a heuristic time and space complexity for solving SVP of 2^(0.3366n). Preliminary experiments show that the proposed HashSieve algorithm already outperforms the GaussSieve in low dimensions, and that the practical increase in the space complexity is much smaller than the asymptotic bounds suggest. Using probing we show how we can further reduce the space complexity at the cost of slightly increasing the time complexity.
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