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Comment by tptacek

4 days ago

How long do you think people have been working on lattice cryptography?

Lattices themselves have been analyzed since the days of Gauss. Lattice cryptography is only a couple decades old (in the unclassified literature).

The first proposed lattice-based cryptosystem was completely broken within 2 years of its announcement, which is an lovely harbinger of Kyber’s fate.

  • That's a funny claim given NTRU goes back to 1996 and was a PQC finalist. I barely know what I'm talking about here and even I think you're bluffing your way through this. At this point you're making arguments Bernstein would presumably himself reject!

    • Since you've been very strident throughout this thread I'm wondering if you're going to have a response to this. Similarly, I'm curious, as a scholar of Bernstein's cryptography writing --- did the MOV attack (prominently featured on Safecurves) serve as a lovely harbinger of the failure of elliptic curve cryptography?