Year
2021
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Computing and Information Technology
Abstract
Lattice-based cryptography is an excellent candidate for post-quantum cryptography, i.e. cryptosystems which are resistant to attacks run on quantum computers. For efficiency reason, most of the constructions explored nowadays are based on structured lattices, such as module lattices or ideal lattices. The security of most constructions can be related to the hardness of retrieving a short element in such lattices, and one does not know yet to what extent these additional structures weaken the cryptosystems. A related problem – which is an extension of a classical problem in computational number theory – called the Short Principal Ideal Problem (or SPIP), consists of finding a short generator of a principal ideal. Its assumed hardness has been used to build some cryptographic schemes. However it has been shown to be solvable in quantum polynomial time over cyclotomic fields, through an attack which uses the Log-unit lattice of the field considered. Later, practical results showed that multiquadratic fields were also weak to this strategy.
The main general question that we study in this thesis is To what extent can structured lattices be used to build a post-quantum cryptography?
Recommended Citation
Lesavourey, Andrea, Usability of structured lattices for a post-quantum cryptography: practical computations, and a study of some real Kummer extensions, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Computing and Information Technology, University of Wollongong, 2021. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/1110
FoR codes (2008)
010101 Algebra and Number Theory, 080201 Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.