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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

New Conditions for Secure Knapsack Schemes against Lattice Attack

Noboru KUNIHIRO

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Many knapsack cryptosystems have been proposed but almost all the schemes are vulnerable to lattice attack because of their low density. To prevent the lattice attack, Chor and Rivest proposed a low weight knapsack scheme, which made the density higher than critical density. In Asiacrypt2005, Nguyen and Stern introduced pseudo-density and proved that if the pseudo-density is low enough (even if the usual density is not low enough), the knapsack scheme can be broken by a single call to SVP/CVP oracle. However, the usual density and the pseudo-density are not sufficient to measure the resistance to the lattice attack individually. In this paper, we first introduce the new notion of density D, which naturally unifies the previous two density. Next, we derive conditions for our density so that a knapsack scheme is secure against lattice attack. We obtain a critical bound of density which depends only on the rate of the message length and its Hamming weight. Furthermore, we show that if D<0.8677, the knapsack scheme is solved by lattice attack. Next, we show that the critical bound goes to 1 if the Hamming weight decreases, which means that it is (almost) impossible to construct a low weight knapsack scheme which is supported by an argument of density.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E93-A No.6 pp.1058-1065
Publication Date
2010/06/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.E93.A.1058
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
Category
Cryptography and Information Security

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