Indistinguishability under adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack secure double-NTRU-based key encapsulation mechanism

Abstract

In this article, we propose a double-NTRU (D-NTRU)-based key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) for the key agreement requirement of the post-quantum world. The proposed KEM is obtained by combining one-way D-NTRU encryption and Dent’s KEM design method. The main contribution of this article is to construct a D-NTRU-based KEM that provides indistinguishability under adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack (IND-CCA2) security. The IND-CCA2 analysis and primal/dual attack resistance of the proposed D-NTRU KEM are examined in detail. A comparison with similar protocols is provided regarding parameters, public/secret keys, and ciphertext sizes. The proposed scheme presents arithmetic simplicity and IND-CCA2 security that does not require any padding mechanism.

Keywords

• Post-quantum cryptography
• Key encapsulation mechanism
• NTRU
• Lattice-based cryptography