Questions tagged [ntru]
NTRU is an encryption algorithm which is based on the shortest vector problem in a lattice.
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How to implement NTRU threshold cryptosystem [closed]
I want to implement a basic NTRU threshold encryption/decryption process, I know the basics of NTRU and I implemented a threshold cryptosystem for ElGamal, the next step is to build one for NTRU, but ...
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Encrypt your ECDSA signature with NTRU to make them quantum secure, does that work?
I have a general question about quantum security. ECDSA is suppose to be broken by quantum computers. Whilst something like NTRU is suppose to be secure.
My question is: if we sign with ECDSA and ...
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Original NTRU : How to calculate the size of private key?
In the original NTRU paper：NTRU: A Ring-Based Public Key Cryptosystem,1996, the author proposes 3 choices of implementation parameters: moderate, high and highest. Let's take moderate security level ...
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Is the IEEE 1363.1 standard of NTRU post-quantum secure?
I have a question regarding the IEEE 1363.1 standard for NTRU with padding, which offers CCA security. Does the IEEE standardized implementation offer post-quantum security as well?
Also, what are ...
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Decide whether a polynomial is invertible mod $q$
When implementing NTRU related cryptosystem, I came across the problem of deciding whether a randomly generated polynomial is invertible mod $q$. How to solve it?
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Can NTRUPrime public keys be identified from ciphertext?
Is it possible to distinguish which NTRU public key a ciphertext/encrypted message is for? Assume the attacker has no plaintext or access to secret keys.
I suppose this would be a form of key ...
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Multiplicative inverse for polynomial in NTRU encryption and NTRU attacks?
I know that we use EEC for calculate the multiplicative inverse but the problem to me is to calculate the inverse.
I mean if i have $f(x) = x^6-x^4+x^3+x^2-1$ and $(N, p, q, d) = (7, 3, 41, 2)$, ...
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Is there is a way to calculate the public key from the private key in pqNTRUSign algorithm?
There is source code of this algorithm (https://github.com/NTRUOpenSourceProject/NTRUMLS). But this algorithm does not provide a function for generating a public key from a private key. Studying the ...
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NTRU homomorphic rerandomization
I am currently implementing NTRU, keeping its homomorphic properties. I want to implement rerandomization like this:
Encryption: $e = pr * h + m \pmod q$
Rerandomization: $e = e + pr \pmod q$ (...
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NTRUencrypt: why is it dangerous to use two different ephemeral keys for the same message?
I'm self-studying NTRU encrypt, and I read following in the book "an introduction to mathematical cryptography" -Chapter 6.10-remark 6.50 (Jeffrey hoffstein, Jill Pipher, Joseph H. silverman):
NTRU ...
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NTRU-based threshold encryption system?
I want to implement threshold homomorphic encryption for my project.
(encrypt a message using one public key, and decrypt a ciphertext using distributed secret keys)
I read a paper "Multiparty ...
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Key and signature sizes of NTRU and NTRU Prime?
I would have expected this info to be easier to Google Scholar for, but alas I'm asking here.
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NTRU key size (confused)
the public key consists of one ring, and so it takes up $11 ...
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Layered encryption in mixnets with post-quantum cryptography
I am trying to implement a mixnet using post-quantum public-key crypto. Each message may be encrypted by up to 10 levels of public keys, shuffled, before the layers of encryption are stripped off one ...
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Uniform Distribution and discrete Gaussian distribution for NTRU
I want to implement the NTRU cryptosystem. What is the method and algorithm to choose vectors elements from a uniform distribution and discrete Gaussian distribution?
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NTRU key size (confused)
I'm evaluating the performance of NTRU; and I got confused. the key size is said to be smaller than RSA but larger than ECC.
Using both the reference implementation when I choose APR2011_439 setting ...
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Explain: An NTRU key for a lattice of dimension $d$ has size only $O(d\log{d})$
The associated NTRU lattice is of dimension $d=2N$.
The public and private key sizes are both of length $O(N)=O(d/2)=O(d)$.
So where does the $d\log(d)$ appear?
Thanks in advance.
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NTRU Backdoor and New Hope TLS Protocol
The pre-print, Unstructured Inversions of New Hope was posted yesterday and uses a backdoor method against NTRU to claim that Grover's algorithm and an inversion oracle could be applied to New Hope.
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Message expansion in NTRU: why is it $\log_p(q)$-to-$1$?
Suppose that we are working with the original version of NTRU with parameters $(N,p,q,k,d_f,d_g,d_\phi)$.
In this case we are working with the original NTRU with the digital envelope and the ...
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In NTRU digital envelope, do everyone know the hash function $H$ used?
I have a simple question about the NTRU original cryptosystem using a digital envelope.
The article can be found here: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/1363/lattPK/submissions/ntru.pdf
It is said that ...
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In NTRU, if $N$ is not prime, prove that one can recover the private key by solving a lattice problem in dimension lower than $2N$
In the NTRU cryptosystem, it is suggested to take $N$ prime.
I want to understand why.
In Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and H. Silverman An Introduction to Mathematical Cryptography, they suggest (...
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What is the most efficient attack on NTRU?
So, I got how finding the private key is equivalent to resolving the SVP. I also understood that the LLL algorithm can only be used in small dimensions. Now, I wonder what is the most efficient attack ...
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Calculating Polynomial Inverse with extended euclid in java
I'm trying to understand the NTRU-PKCS and therefor I wanted to code a naive Version of it. Now my Problem:
I tried to calculate the inverse of a Polynomial with an extended Version of euclids ...
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On a proposition in NTRU original paper: $\gamma_1 |f|_2 |g|_2 \leq |f \circledast g|_\infty \leq \gamma_2 |f|_2 |g|_2$
In the original paper of NTRU cryptosystem, we have the following proposition (that is said to be suggested by Don Coppersmith):
For any $\epsilon > 0$, there are constants $\gamma_1,\gamma_2 &...
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What is the most common encoding of messages to polynomials?
How polynomial based encryption schemes such as NTRU encode messages in to polynomials? Is there a generic conversion?
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Which attacks are possible against raw/textbook NTRU encryption?
In the same fashion that these questions about attacks to textbook RSA and ECC, I was wondering what are the immediate drawbacks of applying NTRU Encryption directly, without any padding scheme, such ...
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how to define the Truncated Polynomial?
In NTRUEncryption, I seen the trucated polynimials, but I cannot understand the trunacated polynomial calculation.
So, could tell me anyone How do we calculate the truncated polynomial?
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How can I implement decryption for NTRU homomorphic encryption scheme?
I have come across this paper On-the-fly multiparty computation via on-the-cloud Multikey from Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Lopez-Alt et al., where authors describe a NTRU-based homomorphic ...
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Secure, patent-free alternative to NTRU
I'm working on a P2P communications and chat framework, and am looking for a quantum-secure asymmetric key exchange algorithm which I can use to perform a key exchange of an AES-256 bit key. This is ...
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Lightweight Asymmetric encryption algorithm
I'm an embedded systems researcher, and new in the crypto field. Actually, I need to know if there are any lightweight asymmetric encryption algorithm especially considering the time needed for key ...
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Multiple NTRU public keys for the same private key?
An NTRU public key is generated essentially by multiplying the inverse of a polynomial $f$ by a polynomial $g$. The polynomial $f$ is the private key; $g$ is discarded.
My question is: Is it insecure ...
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How about a homomorphic integer sorting in a MPC context?
I want to implement the ATV-FHE scheme as described by Adriana López-Alt, Eran Tromer, Vinod Vaikuntanathan: On-the-Fly Multiparty Computation on the Cloud via Multikey Fully Homomorphic Encryption (...
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How do I check if the secret key polynomial of the ATV-FHE (NTRU based) scheme is invertible?
I want to implement the ATV-FHE scheme as described here https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf. To generate the secret key polynomial I compute f = 2*u + 1 , with scheme parameters chosen such that ...
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What is the bound for the probability distribution for ATV-FHE scheme?
I try to implement the ATV-FHE scheme as described in this paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf.
How do I choose the bound for the probability distribution chi?
How do I choose standard ...
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How to generate public key for ATV-FHE scheme?
I want to implement the ATV-FHE scheme as it is described here https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf. How to generate the public key?
Should I compute it as indicated in section 2 :
$h(i) = 2g(i)*[...
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How to test a FHE implementation?
I want to implement a FHE scheme based on NTRU, namely the scheme described here https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/039.pdf . How to test the security of my implementation ? Do I have to implement the ...
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How to toggle a bit homomorphically ?
Suppose I want to use LTV scheme from this paper https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/094.pdf to compute homomorphically a function.
But the multiplication operation is more expensive than the additive one.
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Is reverse NTRU still secure?
I'm currently prototyping something with the NTRU encryption scheme but I wish to use it in "reverse" -- distribute private keys so anyone can decrypt, but keep the public keys secret and thus only ...
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What kind of operations are involved in NTRU?
I've read that lattice based algorithms involve matrix-vector products. Is this the case of the NTRU algorithm?
When I've read the details of the NTRU algorithm, I've seen products of polynoms. Where ...
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Where can I find NTRU test vectors?
In some research work in 2001, it is stated that test vectors were not publicly available at the time. Then in this ESSS1v2 standard under IEEE1363 here , the appendix B mentions that the test vectors ...
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NTRU less secure than previously thought?
A new paper (https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/552.pdf) says:
This makes it possible to asymptotically and heuristically break the NTRU cryptosystem in subexponential time (without contradicting its ...
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NTRU and one failed example
In NTRU crypto system I have used these polynomials and parameters:
$N = 17, p = 7, q = 64$ and $f$ as private key is:
$$f = -1 + x + x^2 - x^4 + x^6 + x^9 - x^{10}$$
So the inverse of $f$ in ring $\...
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what are the NTRU keysize and application in industry?
I'm a student currently working on a research project on the NTRU cryptosystem, I've read some papers about this cryptosystem, and in those papers they are talking about keysize, is it the size of the ...
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Regarding NTRU homomorphic properties
NTRU has some homomorphic properties modulo q, supporting both addition and multiplication. Due to its nature, it cannot support many of them. My main focus currently is in the addition, so the ...
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NTRU Encryption
It's using Euclidian inverse. Can you show it step by step?
$$N=7, q=11, a = 3+2X^2 -3X^4 +X^6$$
the inverse of $a \pmod {11}$ is
$$A=-2+4X+2X^2 +4X^3 -4X^4 +2X^5 -2X^6$$
How do we compute $A$?
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NTRU key generation
I've been experimenting with an NTRU open-source C implementation here
I've noticed something (potentionally) strange with a certain set of params: NTRU_EES1087EP2 (defined here).
When generating ...
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Reduced message expansion in NTRU
In the original NTRU proposal from 1998, it says on page 16:
It may be worth mentioning, though, that there is a simple. masking technique that can be used to significantly reduce message expansion....
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Why does NTRUEncrypt lack a formal security proof?
Is there any particular reason why NTRUEncrypt lacks a formal security proof? That is, a demonstration that it achieves certain security notion (e.g. IND-CPA). I know there is a provable-secure ...
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Convert message to polynomial NTRU
How to make a message into a polynomial? I saw many answers to this question and yes, i know that here are some questions. But i did not get it. I think that i am making some mistakes. I took a word ...
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Does NTRU provide Perfect Forward Secrecy?
Does NTRU provide Perfect Forward Secrecy if the world would use it in an HTTPS connection?
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How can I make a message into a blocks for NTRU?
I have more bits than the degree of the NTRU polynomial.
For example: $x^{11}-1$
message: Hello (I am using ascii, 8 bits for 1 symbol)
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