Unstructured Inversions of New Hope

ePrint Report: Unstructured Inversions of New Hope

Ian Malloy

Introduced as a new protocol implemented in “Chrome Canary” for the Google Inc. Chrome browser,
“New Hope” is engineered as a post-quantum key exchange for the TLS 1.2 protocol. The structure of
the exchange is revised lattice-based cryptography. New Hope incorporates the key-encapsulation
mechanism of Peikert which itself is a modified Ring-LWE scheme. The search space used to introduce
the closest-vector problem is generated by an intersection of a tesseract and …

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