International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 12 February 2021

Lei Bi, Xianhui Lu, Junjie Luo, Kunpeng Wang, Zhenfei Zhang
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In this paper, we study the hybrid dual attack over Learning with Errors (LWE) problems for any secret distribution. Prior to our work, hybrid attacks are only considered for sparse and/or small secrets. A new and interesting result from our analysis shows that a hybrid dual attack can outperform a standalone dual attack, regardless of the secret distribution. We formulate our results into a framework of predicting the performance of the hybrid dual attacks. We also present a few tricks that further improve our attack. To illustrate the effectiveness of our result, we re-evaluate the security of all LWE related proposals in round 3 of NIST’s post-quantum cryptography process, and improve the state-of- the-art cryptanalysis results by 1-9 bits, under the BKZ-core-SVP model.
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