Exact Lattice Sampling from Non-Gaussian Distributions

Venue: Public Key Cryptography 2021
Authors: Thomas Prest (PQShield), Maxime Plançon

Abstract

We propose a new framework for (trapdoor) sampling over lattices. Our framework can be instantiated in a number of ways. It allows for example to sample from uniform, affine and “product affine” distributions. Another salient point of our framework is that the output distributions of our samplers are perfectly indistinguishable from ideal ones, in contrast with classical samplers that are statistically indistinguishable. One caveat of our framework is that all our current instantiations entail a rather large standard deviation.