Paper 2023/222

A Lightweight Identification Protocol Based on Lattices

Samed Düzlü, University of Regensburg
Juliane Krämer, University of Regensburg
Thomas Pöppelmann, Infineon Technologies AG
Patrick Struck, University of Regensburg
Abstract

In this work we present a lightweight lattice-based identification protocol based on the CPA-secured public key encryption scheme Kyber. It is designed as a replacement for existing classical ECC- or RSA-based identification protocols in IoT, smart card applications, or for device authentication. The proposed protocol is simple, efficient, and implementations are supposed to be easy to harden against side-channel attacks. Compared to standard constructions for identification protocols based on lattice-based KEMs, our construction achieves this by avoiding the Fujisaki-Okamoto transform and its impact on implementation security. Moreover, contrary to prior lattice-based identification protocols or standard constructions using signatures, our work does not require rejection sampling and can use more efficient parameters than signature schemes. We provide a generic construction from CPA-secured public key encryption schemes to identification protocols and give a security proof of the protocol in the ROM. Moreover, we instantiate the generic construction with Kyber, for which we use the proposed parameter sets for NIST security levels I, III, and V. To show that the protocol is suitable for constrained devices, we implemented one selected parameter set on an ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. As the protocol is based on existing algorithms for Kyber, we make use of existing SW components (e.g., fast NTT implementations) for our implementation.

Metadata
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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published by the IACR in PKC 2023
Keywords
Lattice-Based CryptographyIdentification ProtocolPost-Quantum CryptographyLWE
Contact author(s)
samed duzlu @ ur de
juliane kraemer @ ur de
Thomas Poeppelmann @ infineon com
patrick struck @ ur de
History
2023-02-20: approved
2023-02-18: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2023/222
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/222,
      author = {Samed Düzlü and Juliane Krämer and Thomas Pöppelmann and Patrick Struck},
      title = {A Lightweight Identification Protocol Based on Lattices},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/222},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/222}
}
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