Ratio Mathematica (Jul 2018)

A New Provably Secure Cryptosystem Using Dedekind Domain Direct Product Approach

  • Amir Hassani Karbasi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.23755/rm.v34i0.404
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 34, no. 0
pp. 49 – 65

Abstract

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We would like to prevent, detect, and protect communication and information systems' attacks, which include unauthorized reading of a message of file and traffic analysis or active attacks, such as modification of messages or files, and denial of service by providing cryptographic techniques. If we prove that an encryption algorithm is based on mathematical NP-hard problems, we can prove its security. In this paper, we present a new NTRU-Like public-key cryptosystem with security provably based on the worst-case hardness of the approximate lattice problems (NP-hard problems) in some structured lattices (ideal lattices) in order to attain the applicable objectives of preserving the confidentiality of communication and information system resources (includes hardware, software, firmware, information/data, and telecommunications). Our proposed scheme is an improvement of ETRU cryptosystem. ETRU is an NTRU-Like public-key cryptosystem based on the Eisenstein integers Z [f_3 ] where f_3 is a primitive cube root of unity. ETRU has heuristic security and it has no proof of security. We show that our cryptosystem has security stronger than that of ETRU, over cartesian product of dedekind domains and extended cyclotomic polynomials. We prove the security of our main algorithm from the R-SIS and R-LWE problems as NP-hard problems.