SPRING: Fast pseudorandom functions from rounded ring products

Abhishek Banerjee, Hai Brenner, Gaëtan Leurent, Chris Peikert, Alon Rosen

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Abstract

Recently, Banerjee, Peikert and Rosen (EUROCRYPT 2012) proposed new theoretical pseudorandom function candidates based on “rounded products” in certain polynomial rings, which have rigorously provable security based on worst-case lattice problems. The functions also enjoy algebraic properties that make them highly parallelizable and attractive for modern applications, such as evaluation under homomorphic encryption schemes. However, the parameters required by BPR’s security proofs are too large for practical use, and many other practical aspects of the design were left unexplored in that work. In this work we give two concrete and practically efficient instantiations of the BPR design, which we call SPRING, for “subset-product with rounding over a ring.” One instantiation uses a generator matrix of a binary BCH error-correcting code to “determinstically extract” nearly random bits from a (biased) rounded subset-product. The second instantiation eliminates bias by working over suitable moduli and decomposing the computation into “Chinese remainder” components. We analyze the concrete security of these instantiations, and provide initial software implementations whose throughputs are within small factors (as small as 4.5) of those of AES.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationFast Software Encryption - 21st International Workshop, FSE 2014, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsCarlos Cid, Christian Rechberger
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages38-57
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783662467053
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event21st International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2014 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 3 Mar 20145 Mar 2014

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8540
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st International Workshop on Fast Software Encryption, FSE 2014
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period3/03/145/03/14

Keywords

  • Lattices
  • Learning with rounding
  • Noisy learning problems
  • Pseudorandom functions

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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