An Improved Quantum Algorithm for 3-Tuple Lattice Sieving

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Auteurs principaux: Engelberts, Lynn, Chen, Yanlin, Gilani, Amin Shiraz, van Hoof, Maya-Iggy, Jeffery, Stacey, de Wolf, Ronald
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author Engelberts, Lynn
Chen, Yanlin
Gilani, Amin Shiraz
van Hoof, Maya-Iggy
Jeffery, Stacey
de Wolf, Ronald
author_facet Engelberts, Lynn
Chen, Yanlin
Gilani, Amin Shiraz
van Hoof, Maya-Iggy
Jeffery, Stacey
de Wolf, Ronald
contents The assumed hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem in high-dimensional lattices is one of the cornerstones of post-quantum cryptography. The fastest known heuristic attacks on SVP are via so-called sieving methods. While these still take exponential time in the dimension $d$, they are significantly faster than non-heuristic approaches and their heuristic assumptions are verified by extensive experiments. $k$-Tuple sieving is an iterative method where each iteration takes as input a large number of lattice vectors of a certain norm, and produces an equal number of lattice vectors of slightly smaller norm, by taking sums and differences of $k$ of the input vectors. Iterating these ''sieving steps'' sufficiently many times produces a short lattice vector. The fastest attacks (both classical and quantum) are for $k=2$, but taking larger $k$ reduces the amount of memory required for the attack. In this paper we improve the quantum time complexity of 3-tuple sieving from $2^{0.3098 d}$ to $2^{0.2846 d}$, using a two-level amplitude amplification aided by a preprocessing step that associates the given lattice vectors with nearby ''center points'' to focus the search on the neighborhoods of these center points. Our algorithm uses $2^{0.1887d}$ classical bits and QCRAM bits, and $2^{o(d)}$ qubits. This is the fastest known quantum algorithm for SVP when total memory is limited to $2^{0.1887d}$.
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spellingShingle An Improved Quantum Algorithm for 3-Tuple Lattice Sieving
Engelberts, Lynn
Chen, Yanlin
Gilani, Amin Shiraz
van Hoof, Maya-Iggy
Jeffery, Stacey
de Wolf, Ronald
Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
The assumed hardness of the Shortest Vector Problem in high-dimensional lattices is one of the cornerstones of post-quantum cryptography. The fastest known heuristic attacks on SVP are via so-called sieving methods. While these still take exponential time in the dimension $d$, they are significantly faster than non-heuristic approaches and their heuristic assumptions are verified by extensive experiments. $k$-Tuple sieving is an iterative method where each iteration takes as input a large number of lattice vectors of a certain norm, and produces an equal number of lattice vectors of slightly smaller norm, by taking sums and differences of $k$ of the input vectors. Iterating these ''sieving steps'' sufficiently many times produces a short lattice vector. The fastest attacks (both classical and quantum) are for $k=2$, but taking larger $k$ reduces the amount of memory required for the attack. In this paper we improve the quantum time complexity of 3-tuple sieving from $2^{0.3098 d}$ to $2^{0.2846 d}$, using a two-level amplitude amplification aided by a preprocessing step that associates the given lattice vectors with nearby ''center points'' to focus the search on the neighborhoods of these center points. Our algorithm uses $2^{0.1887d}$ classical bits and QCRAM bits, and $2^{o(d)}$ qubits. This is the fastest known quantum algorithm for SVP when total memory is limited to $2^{0.1887d}$.
title An Improved Quantum Algorithm for 3-Tuple Lattice Sieving
topic Quantum Physics
Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08473