Procedia Computer Science

New variant for Learning with Errors Problem

Xuyang Wang, Aiqun Hu, Hao Fang

Published Jan 1, 2018• 3 citations

Abstract

The Learning with Errors (LWE) problem is a special average-case lattice problem, which has proved to be as hard as worst-case lattice problems. By this property, it has become the cornerstones for a series of cryptographic applications under the security assumption of worst-case lattice problems. However, the efficiency of these applications are not high. Therefore, how to improve the efficiency of cryptographic applications based on LWE is an urgent problem to be solved. In this paper, a new variant of LWE is proposed. By using trapdoor composed by lattice-based matrix and its dual orthogonal matrix, we construct a more efficient public key encryption (PKE) scheme based on the variant. Furthermore, by the hardness of the variant problem, we prove the new PKE scheme is chosen plaintext attack (CPA) secure. At last, we analyze the homomorphism property of the new PKE scheme.

DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2018.04.243

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