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The paper proves that the solution to the problem of finding a short vector in a certain random lattice would imply the solution of three ``famous lattice problems: (P1) Find the length of a shorter vector in an \(n\)-dimensional lattice approximately. (P2) Find the shorter vector in an \(n\)-dimensional lattice where the shorter vector is unique. (P3) Find a base in an \(n\)-dimensional lattice whose length is the smallest possible up to a polynomial factor. In the Introduction the author describes the cryptographic context: public key cryptosystems use a specific instance of an NP-problem where the instance is supposed to be difficult to solve. A solution to the lack of a mathematical proof of this ``difficulty is to prove that the solution of a random instance would solves one ``famous unsolved problem in the worst case. Finding short vectors in a lattice is a classical problem that goes back to Dirichlet, a landmark being the \(L^3\) algorithm of \textit{A. K. Lenstra, H. W. Lenstra jun.} and \textit{L. Lovasz} [Math. Ann. 261, 515--534 (1982; Zbl 0488.12001)]. Section 2 describes the lattices to be considered and states the main result of the paper. The author defines a random variable whose values are lattices \(\Delta (\nu, q)\),\, where \(\nu = \langle u_1,\dots, u_m\rangle\), \(u_i\in \mathbb{Z}^n\). \(\Delta (\nu, q)\)\, is the lattice of all sequences of integers \(h_1,\dots,h_m\) such that \(\sum h_iu_i\equiv 0\bmod q\) (where \(m,q\) are integers depending only on \(n\)). Then Theorem 2.1 states that ``If there is an algorithm which finds a short vector, with a non-trivial probability, in \(L=\Delta (\nu, q)\) then there is a probabilistic algorithm which solves the worst case problems. Section 3 gives a sketch of the proof of Theorem 2.1. In particular it is shown that it is enough to prove P3 since P1 and P2 easily follow. The remaining three sections give the details of the proof. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1062.68004].




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