In this article, we propose a generic hybrid encryption scheme providing entity authentication.The scheme is based on lossy trapdoor functions relying on the hardness of the Learning With Errors problem.The construction can be used on a number of different security requirements with minimal reconfiguration.It ensures entity authentication and ciphertext integrity while providing security against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks in the standard model.As a desired characteristic of schemes providing entity authentication, we prove the strong unforgeability under chosen message attack for the construction.In addition, the scheme is post-quantum secure based on the hardness of the underlying assumption.
In this article, we propose a generic hybrid encryption scheme providing entity authentication.The scheme is based on lossy trapdoor functions relying on the hardness of the Learning With Errors problem.The construction can be used on a number of different security requirements with minimal reconfiguration.It ensures entity authentication and ciphertext integrity while providing security against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks in the standard model.As a desired characteristic of schemes providing entity authentication, we prove the strong unforgeability under chosen message attack for the construction.In addition, the scheme is post-quantum secure based on the hardness of the underlying assumption.
The existing lattice-based signcryption schemes are based on trapdoor generation algorithm and preimage sample algorithm. However, both algorithms are complex, require a lot of time to run, and affect the efficiency of latticed-based signcryption schemes deeply. To solve this problem, the first lattice-based signcryption scheme without trapdoor generation algorithm and preimage sample algorithm is proposed, with the help of the technique of lattice signatures without trapdoors and the associated signature compression technique, as well as the encryption method based on the learning with errors assumption. The scheme achieves indistinguishability against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks under the learning with errors assumption. It also achieves existential unforgeability against adaptive chosen message attacks under the small integer solution assumption. The proposed scheme is not only quantum resistant, but also efficient.
Signcryption is a basic cryptographic primitive that simultaneously captures the functions of encryption and signature. To realize comprehensive information security against quantum computing attacks, lattice-based signcryption schemes have been successively proposed. However, the performance of signcryption schemes should be improved in the lattice setting. An efficient lattice-based signcryption scheme in the standard model is proposed in this paper. Under the ring learning with errors (RLWE) assumption and the ideal short integer solution (ISIS) assumption, the proposed signcryption scheme achieves indistinguishability against adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks (IND-CCA2) and existential unforgeability under an adaptive chosen-message attack (EUF-ACMA). Our scheme not only reduces the communication and computational overhead but also realizes a new design that combines the partitioning technique with the idea of tag-based key encapsulation. The performance analysis results show that our scheme is more efficient than previous lattice-based signcryption schemes in the standard model.
Using a known lattice-based chosen plain-text secure encryption scheme and the Bonsai trees primitive, a identity-based encryption (IBE) scheme is proposed in this paper. A public matrices chosen rule that has been used in a known efficient lattice-based chosen ciphtertext secure encryption scheme is used in this paper to reduce the public key size and the message-to ciphtertext expanse factor. Under the hardness of the decision variant of the learning with errors (LWE) problem, we prove that the proposed IBE scheme is indistinguishable against the adaptive chosen identities and chosen-plaintext attack in the standard model. Since a new public key chosen rule is used in our design scheme, the public key size of the proposed scheme would be short. Moreover, the message-to-ciphtertext expanse factor of this scheme is also controlled efficiently which is nearly closed to that of Gentry's scheme. Due to the quantum intractability of the LWE problem on which the scheme is based, the proposed IBE scheme is secure even in quantum-era.
Certificateless signcryption can simultaneously provide certificateless signature and encryption. In recent years, many certificateless signcryption schemes have been proposed. However, these schemes are based on traditional mathematical theory and not have the ability of resisting the quantum computing attacks. Up to now, lattice-based certificateless signature or encryption schemes have been proposed; however, these schemes only have one function and cannot fulfill two functions of certificateless signature and encryption at the same time. In consideration of this reason, in this article, a certificateless signcryption scheme from lattice (L-CLSS) is constructed. L-CLSS has three advantages. First, in the random oracle model, it is provably indistinguishable against adaptive ciphertext-chosen attacks under the intractability of the learning with errors (LWE) problem and unforgeable against adaptive message-chosen attacks under the hardness of small integer solution (SIS) problem. Second, comparison with the cryptographic algorithms under the difficulty of large integer decomposition, L-CLSS can resist the quantum computing attacks. Third, L-CLSS has higher computation efficiency and a lower communication cost than the existing schemes.
The proxy re-encryption allows an intermediate proxy to convert a ciphertext for Alice into a ciphertext for Bob without seeing the original message and leaking out relevant information.Unlike many prior identity based proxy re-encryption schemes which are based on the number theoretic assumptions such as large integer factorization and discrete logarithm problem.In this paper, we first propose a novel identity based proxy re-encryption scheme which is based on the hardness of standard Learning With Error(LWE) problem and is CPA secure in the standard model.This scheme can be reduced to the worst-case lattice hard problem that is able to resist attacks from quantum algorithm.The key step in our construction is that the challenger how to answer the private query under a known trapdoor matrix.Our scheme enjoys properties of the non-interactivity, unidirectionality, anonymous and so on.In this paper, we utilize primitives include G-trapdoor for lattice and sample algorithms to realize simple and efficient re-encryption.
Digital signatures and encryption schemes constitute arguably an integral part of cryptographic schemes with the goal to meet the security needs of present and future private and business applications. However, almost all public key cryptosystems applied in practice are put at risk due to its vulnerability to quantum attacks as a result of Shor's quantum algorithm. The magnitude of economic and social impact is tremendous inherently asking for alternatives replacing classical schemes in case large-scale quantum computers are built. Lattice-based cryptography emerged as a powerful candidate attracting lots of attention not only due to its conjectured resistance against quantum attacks, but also because of its unique security guarantee to provide worst-case hardness of average-case instances. Hence, the requirement of imposing further assumptions on the hardness of randomly chosen instances disappears, resulting in more efficient instantiations of cryptographic schemes. The best known lattice attack algorithms run in exponential time. \nIn this thesis we contribute to a smooth transition into a world with practically efficient lattice-based cryptographic schemes. This is indeed accomplished by designing new algorithms and cryptographic schemes as well as improving existing ones. Our contributions are threefold. \nFirst, we construct new encryption schemes that fully exploit the error term in LWE instances. To this end, we introduce a novel computational problem that we call Augmented LWE (A-LWE), differing from the original LWE problem only in the way the error term is produced. In fact, we embed arbitrary data into the error term without changing the target distributions. Following this, we prove that A-LWE instances are indistinguishable from LWE samples. This allows to build powerful encryption schemes on top of the A-LWE problem that are simple in its representations and efficient in practice while encrypting huge amounts of data realizing message expansion factors close to 1. This improves, to our knowledge, upon all existing encryption schemes. Due to the versatility of the error term, we further add various security features such as CCA and RCCA security or even plug lattice-based signatures into parts of the error term, thus providing an additional mechanism to authenticate encrypted data. Based on the methodology to embed arbitrary data into the error term while keeping the target distributions, we realize a novel CDT-like discrete Gaussian sampler that beats the best known samplers such as Knuth-Yao or the standard CDT sampler in terms of running time. At run time the table size amounting to 44 elements is constant for every discrete Gaussian parameter and the total space requirements are exactly as large as for the standard CDT sampler. Further results include a very efficient inversion algorithm for ring elements in special classes of cyclotomic rings. In fact, by use of the NTT it is possible to efficiently check for invertibility and deduce a representation of the corresponding unit group. Moreover, we generalize the LWE inversion algorithm for the trapdoor candidate of Micciancio and Peikert from power of two moduli to arbitrary composed integers using a different approach. \nIn the second part of this thesis, we present an efficient trapdoor construction for ideal lattices and an associated description of the GPV signature scheme. Furthermore, we improve the signing step using a different representation of the involved perturbation matrix leading to enhanced memory usage and running times. Subsequently, we introduce an advanced compression algorithm for GPV signatures, which previously suffered from huge signature sizes as a result of the construction or due to the requirement of the security proof. We circumvent this problem by introducing the notion of public and secret randomness for signatures. In particular, we generate the public portion of a signature from a short uniform random seed without violating the previous conditions. This concept is subsequently transferred to the multi-signer setting which increases the efficiency of the compression scheme in presence of multiple signers. Finally in this part, we propose the first lattice-based sequential aggregate signature scheme that enables a group of signers to sequentially generate an aggregate signature of reduced storage size such that the verifier is still able to check that each signer indeed signed a message. This approach is realized based on lattice-based trapdoor functions and has many application areas such as wireless sensor networks. \nIn the final part of this thesis, we extend the theoretical foundations of lattices and propose new representations of lattice problems by use of Cauchy integrals. Considering lattice points as simple poles of some complex functions allows to operate on lattice points via Cauchy integrals and its generalizations. For instance, we can deduce for the one-dimensional and two-dimensional case simple expressions for the number of lattice points inside a domain using trigonometric or elliptic functions.