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February
2020, 14(1): 161-169.
doi: 10.3934/amc.2020013
New mission and opportunity for mathematics researchers: Cryptography in the quantum era
Computer Security Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA |
This article introduces the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process. We highlight the challenges, discuss the mathematical problems in the proposed post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and the opportunities for mathematics researchers to contribute.
Keywords:
Post-quantum cryptography,
public-key cryptography,
mathematical research,
standarization,
quantum-safe,
quantum resistant.
Mathematics Subject Classification:
Primary: 11T71, 14G50; Secondary: 94A60.
Citation:
Lidong Chen, Dustin Moody. New mission and opportunity for mathematics researchers: Cryptography in the quantum era. Advances in Mathematics of Communications,
2020, 14
(1)
: 161-169.
doi: 10.3934/amc.2020013
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U. S. Department of Commerce, The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 198–1, July 2008, 7 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.198-1. Google Scholar |
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U. S. Department of Commerce, SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 202, August 2015, 29 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.202. Google Scholar |
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| [1] |
S. Aaronson,
The limits of quantum computers, Scientific American, 4649 (2007), 4-4.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-74510-5_2. |
| [2] |
L. Adleman, On breaking the titrated Merkle-Hellman public-key cryptosystem, in Advances in Cryptology: Crypto '82, Springer, (1982), 303–308. Google Scholar |
| [3] |
Announcing request for nominations for public-key post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, Federal Register, 81 (2016), 92787–92788, Available at https://federalregister.gov/a/2016-30615. Google Scholar |
| [4] |
E. Barker, L. Chen, A. Roginsky, A. Vassilev and R. Davis, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-56A Revision 3, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, April 2018,141 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-56Ar3 Google Scholar |
| [5] |
E. Barker, L. Chen, A. Roginsky, A. Vassilev, R. Davis, S. Simon, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Integer Factorization Cryptography, NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-56B Revision 1, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland, September 2014,121 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-56Br1 Google Scholar |
| [6] |
E. Biham and A. Shamir,
Differential cryptanalysis of DES-like cryptosystems, J. of Cryptology, 4 (1991), 3-72.
doi: 10.1007/BF00630563. |
| [7] |
J. Buchmann, E. Dahmen and M. Szydlo, Hash-based digital signature schemes, in: Post-Quantum Cryptography (eds. D.J. Bernstein, J. Buchmann, E. Dahmen), Springer, Heidelberg, (2009), 35–93.
doi: 10.1007/978-3-540-88702-7_3. |
| [8] |
C. Gentry and M. Szydlo, Cryptanalysis of the revised NTRU signature scheme, in Proceedings of Eurocrypt 2002, Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci., Springer, 2332 (2002), 299–320.
doi: 10.1007/3-540-46035-7_20. |
| [9] |
L. K. Grover, A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search, Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computation, (1996), 212–219.
doi: 10.1145/237814.237866. |
| [10] |
J. Hoffstein, J. Pipher and J. H. Silverman, NTRU: A ring-based public key cryptosystem, in Proceedings of ANTS '98 (ed. J. Buhler), Lect. Notes in Comput. Sci. Springer, 1423 (1998), 267–288.
doi: 10.1007/BFb0054868. |
| [11] |
R. McEliece, A public-key cryptosystem based on algebraic coding theory, DSN Progress Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, (1978), 42–44. Available at https://ipnpr.jpl.nasa.gov/progress_report2/42-44/44N.PDF. Google Scholar |
| [12] |
D. Moody, Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization: Announcement and outline of NIST's Call for Submissions, PQCrypto 2016, Fukuoka, Japan, February, (2016), 24–26, Available at https://csrc.nist.gov/Presentations/2016/Announcement-and-outline-of-NIST-s-Call-for-Submis. Google Scholar |
| [13] |
P. W. Shor, Polynomial-time algorithms for prime factorization and discrete logarithms on a quantum computer, SIAM J. Comput., 26 (1997), 1484–1509, Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/s0036144598347011.
doi: 10.1137/S0097539795293172. |
| [14] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, Data Encryption Standard (DSS), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 46–3, October 1999, 22 pp. Available from: https://csrc.nist.gov/CSRC/media/Publications/fips/46/3/archive/1999-10-25/documents/fips46-3.pdf. Google Scholar |
| [15] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 180–4, August 2015, 31 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.180-4. Google Scholar |
| [16] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, Digital Signature Standard (DSS), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 186–4, July 2003,121 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.186-4. Google Scholar |
| [17] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 197, November 2001, 47 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.197. Google Scholar |
| [18] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, The Keyed-Hash Message Authentication Code (HMAC), Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 198–1, July 2008, 7 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.198-1. Google Scholar |
| [19] |
U. S. Department of Commerce, SHA-3 Standard: Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-Output Functions, Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 202, August 2015, 29 pp. Available from: https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.FIPS.202. Google Scholar |
| [20] |
First PQC Standardization Conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April 11-13, 2018, Available at https://csrc.nist.gov/Events/2018/First-PQC-Standardization-Conference. Google Scholar |
| Categories | Security Description |
| Ⅰ | At least as hard to break as AES128 (exhaustive key search) |
| Ⅱ | At least as hard to break as SHA256 (collision search) |
| Ⅲ | At least as hard to break as AES192 (exhaustive key search) |
| Ⅳ | At least as hard to break as SHA384 (collision search) |
| Ⅴ | At least as hard to break as AES256 (exhaustive key search) |
| Categories | Security Description |
| Ⅰ | At least as hard to break as AES128 (exhaustive key search) |
| Ⅱ | At least as hard to break as SHA256 (collision search) |
| Ⅲ | At least as hard to break as AES192 (exhaustive key search) |
| Ⅳ | At least as hard to break as SHA384 (collision search) |
| Ⅴ | At least as hard to break as AES256 (exhaustive key search) |
Table 2.
Distribution of First Round Candidates
| Signature | Encryption/KEM | Overall | |
| Lattice-based | 5 | 21 | 26 |
| Code-based | 2 | 17 | 19 |
| Multivariate | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Symmetric/Hash-based | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Other | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Total | 19 | 45 | 64 |
| Signature | Encryption/KEM | Overall | |
| Lattice-based | 5 | 21 | 26 |
| Code-based | 2 | 17 | 19 |
| Multivariate | 7 | 2 | 9 |
| Symmetric/Hash-based | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Other | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| Total | 19 | 45 | 64 |
Table 3.
Distribution of Second Round Candidates
| Signature | Encryption/KEM | Overall | |
| Lattice-based | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| Code-based | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Multivariate | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Symmetric/Hash-based | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Other | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 9 | 17 | 26 |
| Signature | Encryption/KEM | Overall | |
| Lattice-based | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| Code-based | 0 | 7 | 7 |
| Multivariate | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Symmetric/Hash-based | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Other | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 9 | 17 | 26 |
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