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IACR News item: 27 September 2015

Jung Hee Cheon, Changmin Lee, Hansol Ryu
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Multilinear maps have many cryptographic applications.

The first candidate construction of multilinear maps was proposed by

Garg, Gentry, and Halevi (GGH13) in 2013,

and a bit later another candidate was suggested by Coron, Lepoint, and Tibouchi (CLT13) over the integers.

However, both of them turned out to be insecure from so-called zeroizing attack (HJ15, CHL$^+$15).

As a fix of CLT13, Coron, Lepoint, and Tibouchi proposed another candidate of new multilinear maps over the integers (CLT15).

In this paper, we describe an attack against CLT15.

Our attack shares the essence of cryptanalysis of CLT13

and exploits low level encodings of zero as well as other public parameters.

As in the CHL$^+$15, this leads to find all the secret parameters of $\\kappa$-multiliear maps in polynomial time of security parameter.

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