# An Improved BKW Algorithm for LWE with Applications to Cryptography and Lattices

@article{Kirchner2015AnIB,
title={An Improved BKW Algorithm for LWE with Applications to Cryptography and Lattices},
author={Paul Kirchner and Pierre-Alain Fouque},
journal={IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
year={2015},
volume={2015},
pages={552}
}
• Published 8 June 2015
• Computer Science, Mathematics
• IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.
In this paper, we study the Learning With Errors problem and its binary variant, where secrets and errors are binary or taken in a small interval. [] Key Method We then introduce variants of BDD, GapSVP and UniqueSVP, where the target point is required to lie in the fundamental parallelepiped, and show how the previous algorithm is able to solve these variants in subexponential time. Moreover, we also show how the previous algorithm can be used to solve the BinaryLWE problem with n samples in subexponential…
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