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Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem used in post-quantum cryptography. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) schemes rely on the hardness of the LWE problem for their security, and two LWE-based cryptosystems were recently standardized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Cathy Yuanchen Li , Emily Wenger , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Francois Charton , Kristin Lauter

Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem underpinning many proposed post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) systems. The only PQC Key Exchange Mechanism (KEM) standardized by NIST is based on module~LWE, and current publicly available PQ…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Cathy Li , Jana Sotáková , Emily Wenger , Mohamed Malhou , Evrard Garcelon , Francois Charton , Kristin Lauter

Currently deployed public-key cryptosystems will be vulnerable to attacks by full-scale quantum computers. Consequently, "quantum resistant" cryptosystems are in high demand, and lattice-based cryptosystems, based on a hard problem known as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Emily Wenger , Mingjie Chen , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

Learning with Errors (LWE) is a hard math problem underlying recently standardized post-quantum cryptography (PQC) systems for key exchange and digital signatures. Prior work proposed new machine learning (ML)-based attacks on LWE problems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Samuel Stevens , Emily Wenger , Cathy Li , Niklas Nolte , Eshika Saxena , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

The Learning with Errors (LWE) problem is a hard math problem in lattice-based cryptography. In the simplest case of binary secrets, it is the subset sum problem, with error. Effective ML attacks on LWE were demonstrated in the case of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Alberto Alfarano , Eshika Saxena , Emily Wenger , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

Sparse binary LWE secrets are under consideration for standardization for Homomorphic Encryption and its applications to private computation. Known attacks on sparse binary LWE secrets include the sparse dual attack and the hybrid sparse…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Niklas Nolte , Mohamed Malhou , Emily Wenger , Samuel Stevens , Cathy Li , François Charton , Kristin Lauter

The Learning with Errors (LWE) problem underlies modern lattice-based cryptography and is assumed to be quantum hard. Recent results show that estimating entanglement entropy is as hard as LWE, creating tension with quantum gravity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Yunfei Wang , Xin Jin , Junyu Liu

Lattice-based cryptography is a foundation for post-quantum security, with the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem as a core component in key exchange, encryption, and homomorphic computation. Structured variants like Ring-LWE (RLWE) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Dongfang Zhao

We construct a strong PUF with provable security against ML attacks on both classical and quantum computers. The security is guaranteed by the cryptographic hardness of learning decryption functions of public-key cryptosystems, and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiaodan Xi , Ge Li , Ye Wang , Yeonsoo Jeon , Michael Orshansky

We show that the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem is classically at least as hard as standard worst-case lattice problems, even with polynomial modulus. Previously this was only known under quantum reductions. Our techniques capture the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Zvika Brakerski , Adeline Langlois , Chris Peikert , Oded Regev , Damien Stehlé

Recent work showed that ML-based attacks on Learning with Errors (LWE), a hard problem used in post-quantum cryptography, outperform classical algebraic attacks in certain settings. Although promising, ML attacks struggle to scale to more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Eshika Saxena , Alberto Alfarano , François Charton , Zeyuan Allen-Zhu , Emily Wenger , Kristin Lauter

The "Ring Learning with Errors" (RLWE) problem was formulated as a variant of the "Learning with Errors" (LWE) problem, with the purpose of taking advantage of an additional algebraic structure in the underlying considered lattices; this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa , Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza , Fernando Pérez-González

We propose a strong physical unclonable function (PUF) provably secure against machine learning (ML) attacks with both classical and quantum computers. Its security is derived from cryptographic hardness of learning decryption functions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Ye Wang , Xiaodan Xi , Michael Orshansky

Module Learning with Errors (M-LWE) based key reconciliation mechanisms (KRM) can be viewed as quantizing an M-LWE sample according to a lattice codebook. This paper describes a generic M-LWE-based KRM framework, valid for any dimensional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Shuiyin Liu , Amin Sakzad

We show direct and conceptually simple reductions between the classical learning with errors (LWE) problem and its continuous analog, CLWE (Bruna, Regev, Song and Tang, STOC 2021). This allows us to bring to bear the powerful machinery of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Aparna Gupte , Neekon Vafa , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

As quantum computing advances rapidly, guaranteeing the security of cryptographic protocols resistant to quantum attacks is paramount. Some leading candidate cryptosystems use the Learning with Errors (LWE) problem, attractive for its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Liljana Babinkostova , Ariana Chin , Aaron Kirtland , Vladyslav Nazarchuk , Esther Plotnick

Modern information communications use cryptography to keep the contents of communications confidential. RSA (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) cryptography and elliptic curve cryptography, which are public-key cryptosystems, are widely used…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Yuri Lucas Direbieski , Hiroki Tanioka , Kenji Matsuura , Hironori Takeuchi , Masahiko Sano , Tetsushi Ueta

The Polynomial Learning With Errors problem (PLWE) serves as the background of two of the three cryptosystems standardized in August 2024 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to replace non-quantum resistant current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Iván Blanco Chacón , Raúl Durán Díaz , Rodrigo Martín Sánchez-Ledesma

KyFrog is a conservative Learning-with-Errors (LWE) key-encapsulation mechanism designed to explore an alternative operating point compared to schemes with relatively small public keys and ciphertexts. KyFrog uses a larger dimension ($n =…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Victor Duarte Melo , Willian J. Buchanan

The Ring Learning-With-Errors (LWE) problem, whose security is based on hard ideal lattice problems, has proven to be a promising primitive with diverse applications in cryptography. There are however recent discoveries of faster algorithms…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Qi Cheng , Jun Zhang , Jincheng Zhuang
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