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Cryptography from Learning Parity with Noise

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The Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem has recently found many applications in cryptography as the hardness assumption underlying the constructions of “provably secure” cryptographic schemes like encryption or authentication protocols. Being provably secure means that the scheme comes with a proof showing that the existence of an efficient adversary against the scheme implies that the underlying hardness assumption is wrong.

LPN based schemes are appealing for theoretical and practical reasons. On the theoretical side, LPN based schemes offer a very strong security guarantee. The LPN problem is equivalent to the problem of decoding random linear codes, a problem that has been extensively studied in the last half century. The fastest known algorithms run in exponential time and unlike most number-theoretic problems used in cryptography, the LPN problem does not succumb to known quantum algorithms. On the practical side, LPN based schemes are often extremely simple and efficient in terms of code-size as well as time and space requirements. This makes them prime candidates for light-weight devices like RFID tags, which are too weak to implement standard cryptographic primitives like the AES block-cipher.

This talk will be a gentle introduction to provable security using simple LPN based schemes as examples. Starting from pseudorandom generators and symmetric key encryption, over secret-key authentication protocols, and, if time admits, touching on recent constructions of public-key identification, commitments and zero-knowledge proofs.

This survey paper accompanies an invited talk at SOFSEM 2012.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Information Technologies, Institute of Informatics and Software Engineering, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 3, 842 16, Bratislava 4, Slovakia

    Mária Bieliková

  2. Dept. of Intelligent Systems and Business Informatics, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Universitätsstr. 65-57, 9020, Klagenfurt, Austria

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  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK

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Pietrzak, K. (2012). Cryptography from Learning Parity with Noise. In: Bieliková, M., Friedrich, G., Gottlob, G., Katzenbeisser, S., Turán, G. (eds) SOFSEM 2012: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7147. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27660-6_9

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