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An Algebraic Attack on Rank Metric Code-Based Cryptosystems

1 CA - LITIS - Equipe Combinatoire et algorithmes
LITIS - Laboratoire d'Informatique, de Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes
Abstract : The Rank metric decoding problem is the main problem considered in cryptography based on codes in the rank metric. Very efficient schemes based on this problem or quasi-cyclic versions of it have been proposed recently, such as those in the submissions ROLLO and RQC currently at the second round of the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process. While combinatorial attacks on this problem have been extensively studied and seem now well understood, the situation is not as satisfactory for algebraic attacks, for which previous work essentially suggested that they were ineffective for cryptographic parameters. In this paper, starting from Ourivski and Johansson's algebraic modelling of the problem into a system of polynomial equations, we show how to augment this system with easily computed equations so that the augmented system is solved much faster via Groebner bases. This happens because the augmented system has solving degree $r$, $r+1$ or $r+2$ depending on the parameters, where $r$ is the rank weight, which we show by extending results from Verbel et al. (PQCrypto 2019) on systems arising from the MinRank problem; with target rank $r$, Verbel et al. lower the solving degree to $r+2$, and even less for some favorable instances that they call superdetermined. We give complexity bounds for this approach as well as practical timings of an implementation using Magma. This improves upon the previously known complexity estimates for both Groebner basis and (non-quantum) combinatorial approaches, and for example leads to an attack in 200 bits on ROLLO-I-256 whose claimed security was 256 bits.
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Magali Bardet, Pierre Briaud, Maxime Bros, Philippe Gaborit, Vincent Neiger, et al.. An Algebraic Attack on Rank Metric Code-Based Cryptosystems. EUROCRYPT 2020 - 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, May 2020, Zagreb / Virtual, Croatia. pp.64--93, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-45727-3_3⟩. ⟨hal-02303015v3⟩

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