English

Message Recovery Attack in NTRU through VFK Lattices

Cryptography and Security 2023-11-29 v1

Abstract

In the present paper, we implement a message recovery attack to all variants of the NTRU cryptosystem. Our approach involves a reduction from the NTRU-lattice to a Voronoi First Kind lattice, enabling the application of a polynomial CVP exact algorithm crucial for executing the Message Recovery. The efficacy of our attack relies on a specific oracle that permits us to approximate an unknown quantity. Furthermore, we outline the mathematical conditions under which the attack is successful. Finally, we delve into a well-established polynomial algorithm for CVP on VFK lattices and its implementation, shedding light on its efficacy in our attack. Subsequently, we present comprehensive experimental results on the NTRU-HPS and the NTRU-Prime variants of the NIST submissions and propose a method that could indicate the resistance of the NTRU cryptosystem to our attack.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2311.17022,
  title  = {Message Recovery Attack in NTRU through VFK Lattices},
  author = {Eirini Poimenidou and Marios Adamoudis and Konstantinos A. Draziotis and Kostas Tsichlas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17022},
  year   = {2023}
}
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