On Accuracy of Testing Decryption Failure Rate for Encryption Schemes under the LWE Assumption

Lattice-based encryption schemes are significant cryptographic primitives to defend information security against quantum menace, and the decryption failure rate is related to both theoretical and realistic security. We quantitatively analyze how the floating-point arithmetic and neglecting small pro...

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Main Authors: Lin Wang, Yang Wang, Huiwen Jia
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi-IET 2024-01-01
Series:IET Information Security
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/2024/2786399
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Summary:Lattice-based encryption schemes are significant cryptographic primitives to defend information security against quantum menace, and the decryption failure rate is related to both theoretical and realistic security. We quantitatively analyze how the floating-point arithmetic and neglecting small probabilities impact the precision, and propose a new effective and efficient test of the failure probability. Therein explicit criteria are given to select the floating-point datatype and to decide which small probabilities should be abandoned. Furthermore, the outcome is theoretically ensured to meet a given precision. Moreover, by combining the heuristic estimate and the precise simulation, this test is more efficient than previously neglecting small probabilities in a practical way.
ISSN:1751-8717