Algebraic Attack on FHE-Friendly Cipher HERA Using Multiple Collisions

Abstract: Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is an advanced cryptography technique to allow computations (i.e., addition and multiplication) over encrypted data. After years of effort, the performance of FHE has been significantly improved and it has moved from theory to practice. The transciphering framework is another important technique in FHE to address the issue of ciphertext expansion and reduce the client-side computational overhead. To apply the transciphering framework to the CKKS FHE scheme, a new transciphering framework called the Real-to-Finite-Field (RtF) framework and a corresponding FHE-friendly symmetric-key primitive called HERA were proposed at ASIACRYPT 2021. Although HERA has a very similar structure to AES, it is considerably different in the following aspects: 1) the power map x → x3 is used as the S-box; 2) a randomized key schedule is used; 3) it is over a prime field Fp with p > 216. In this work, we perform the first third-party cryptanalysis of HERA, by showing ho.... https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/article/view/11407

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Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Algebraic Attack on FHE-Friendly Cipher HERA Using Multiple Collisions ; volume:2024 ; number:1 ; year:2024
IACR transactions on symmetric cryptology ; 2024, Heft 1 (2024)

Creator
Liu, Fukang
Kalam, Abul
Sarkar, Santanu
Meier, Willi

DOI
10.46586/tosc.v2024.i1.214-233
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024032017552304260885
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  • Sarkar, Santanu
  • Meier, Willi

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