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Poster

SALSA: Attacking Lattice Cryptography with Transformers

Emily Wenger · Mingjie Chen · Francois Charton · Kristin E. Lauter

Hall J (level 1) #934

Keywords: [ cryptanalysis ] [ machine learning ]


Abstract:

Currently deployed public-key cryptosystems will be vulnerable to attacks by full-scale quantum computers. Consequently, "quantum resistant" cryptosystems are in high demand, and lattice-based cryptosystems, based on a hard problem known as Learning With Errors (LWE), have emerged as strong contenders for standardization. In this work, we train transformers to perform modular arithmetic and mix half-trained models and statistical cryptanalysis techniques to propose SALSA: a machine learning attack on LWE-based cryptographic schemes. SALSA can fully recover secrets for small-to-mid size LWE instances with sparse binary secrets, and may scale to attack real world LWE-based cryptosystems.

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