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Cryptanalysis of ITRU

Cryptography and Security 2020-05-20 v1

Abstract

ITRU cryptosystem is a public key cryptosystem and one of the known variants of NTRU cryptosystem. Instead of working in a truncated polynomial ring, ITRU cryptosystem is based on the ring of integers. The authors claimed that ITRU has better features comparing to the classical NTRU, such as having a simple parameter selection algorithm, invertibility, and successful message decryption, and better security. In this paper, we present an attack technique against the ITRU cryptosystem, and it is mainly based on a simple frequency analysis on the letters of ciphertexts.

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@article{arxiv.2005.09258,
  title  = {Cryptanalysis of ITRU},
  author = {Hashim H. R. and Molnár A. and Tengely Sz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.09258},
  year   = {2020}
}
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