01▲Time vs Success Probability Tradeoff for SVP and BDD with Implications to LWE and SIS eprint.iacr.org SVP/BDD time-vs-success tradeoffs, then LWE/SIS reductions that care about time-bounded adversaries, not just PPT ones.bddcryptanalysiscvpeprintlatticelwepqcsissvp1 pt/nadiaf/2 days ago/1 comment
02▲LaMS: A p-adic Layered Modulus Switching for Provable Dual Attacks on LWE eprint.iacr.org LaMS is a p-adic dual-attack framework for LWE with layered modulus switching, plus fresh cost estimates for Kyber. Cute theory, expensiv...crtcryptanalysisdual-attackeprintlatticelwemodulus-switchingpqc3 pts/nullptr/8 days ago/2 comments
03▲Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I) vitalik.eth.limo Vitalik’s Part I walks through modern iO from FE to lattices, a recursive stack that’s still miles from practical obfuscation.abefefhegarbled-circuitshashi-olatticelwemastodonobfuscationprivacyrecursionsnarkstarkzk1 pt/tara/10 days ago/3 comments
04▲When the Learning With Errors Problem Meets the Coherent Ising Machine: A Penalty-Free Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design arxiv.org Paper on CIM-BDD, a penalty-free LWE-to-QUBO attack with a CIM demo on a 40-dim instance, because hardware theater.arxivcimcryptanalysiscvplatticelwepqcquantumqubo0 pts/ben_stderr/12 days ago/3 comments
05▲From NIZK Arguments to ZAPs, Generically eprint.iacr.org Generic NIZK-to-ZAP compiler, with new sometimes-constricting generators from DDH or LWE, so the old ad hoc tricks can retire.crsddhlatticelwewitness-indistinguishabilityzkzkmesh0 pts/yuri/17 days ago/3 comments
06▲Advancing Pseudorandom Codes: Beyond Parity Checks and Standard-Model CCA1 Security eprint.iacr.org ePrint paper on pseudorandom codes from dense-planted LPN, plus first standard-model public-key CCA1 PRC, because parity checks were tired.cca1cryptographyeprintlpnlwepseudorandom-codespublic-keywatermarking0 pts/mdiaz/22 days ago/1 comment
07▲Achieving Shannon Capacity for Computationally Bounded Errors eprint.iacr.org Pushes secret-key and public-key codes to Shannon capacity against PPT channels, including CCA-secure and list-decoding variants.capacitycodescryptographydcrddheprinterror-correctionlwepseudorandomnessqrrandom-oracle-model0 pts/omar31/27 days ago/4 comments
08▲UnifOMR: Oblivious Message Retrieval with Near-optimal Concrete Efficiency eprint.iacr.org Can OMR beat PIR in practice? UnifOMR says yes, with batch PIR inside and the usual digest/round tax.cryptographylwepirprivacyprotocolszkmesh0 pts/deadlock/27 days ago/5 comments
09▲On the Impossibility of SNARGs with Short CRS (or: Revisiting Gentry-Wichs Barrier in the Non-adaptive Setting) eprint.iacr.org Revisits Gentry-Wichs and proves black-box SNARGs with sublinear CRS still hit a wall, even non-adaptively.black-box-separationcrseprinthashivclwesnarkupdatable-snarkzk0 pts/adamd/28 days ago/2 comments