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None kyber kem post-quantum This memo specifies a preliminary version ("draft00", "v3.02") of Kyber, an IND-CCA2 secure Key Encapsulation Method. About This Document The latest revision of this draft can be found at . Status information for this document may be found at . Source for this draft and an issue tracker can be found at .

Introduction Kyber is NIST's pick for a post-quantum key agreement . Kyber is not a Diffie-Hellman (DH) style non-interactive key agreement, but instead, Kyber is a Key Encapsulation Method (KEM). A KEM is a three-tuple of algorithms (KeyGen, Encapsulate, Decapsulate):

• KeyGen takes no inputs and generates a private key and a public key;
• Encapsulate takes as input a public key and produces as output a ciphertext and a shared secret;
• Decapsulate takes as input a ciphertext and a private key and produces a shared secret.

Like DH, a KEM can be used as an unauthenticated key-agreement protocol, for example in TLS . However, unlike DH, a KEM-based key agreement is interactive, because the party executing Encapsulate can compute its protocol message (the ciphertext) only after having received the input (public key) from the party running KeyGen and Decapsulate. A KEM can be transformed into a PKE scheme using HPKE .

Warning on stability and relation to ML-KEM NOTE This draft is not stable and does not (yet) match the final NIST standard ML-KEM (FIPS 203) expected in 2024. It also does not match the draft for ML-KEM published by NIST August 2023. Currently it matches Kyber as submitted to round 3 of the NIST PQC process .

Conventions and Definitions The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Overview Kyber is an IND-CCA2 secure KEM. It is constructed by applying a Fujisaki-Okamato style transformation on InnerPKE, which is the underlying IND-CPA secure Public Key Encryption scheme. We cannot use InnerPKE directly, as its ciphertexts are malleable. Kyber IND-CPA IND-CCA2 ]]> Kyber is a lattice-based scheme. More precisely, its security is based on the learning-with-errors-and-rounding problem in module lattices (MLWER). The underlying polynomial ring R (defined in ) is chosen such that multiplication is very fast using the number theoretic transform (NTT, see ). An InnerPKE private key is a vector s over R of length k which is small in a particular way. Here k is a security parameter akin to the size of a prime modulus. For Kyber512, which targets AES-128's security level, the value of k is 2, for Kyber768 (AES-192 security level) k is 3, and for Kyber1024 (AES-256 security level) k is 4. The public key consists of two values:

• A a k-by-k matrix over R sampled uniformly at random and
• t = A s + e, where e is a suitably small masking vector.

Distinguishing between such A s + e and a uniformly sampled t is the decision module learning-with-errors (MLWE) problem. If that is hard, then it is also hard to recover the private key from the public key as that would allow you to distinguish between those two. To save space in the public key, A is recomputed deterministically from a 256bit seed rho. Strictly speaking, A is not uniformly random anymore, but it's computationally indistuinguishable from it. A ciphertext for a message m under this public key is a pair (c_1, c_2) computed roughly as follows: where

• e_1, e_2 and r are small blinds;
• Compress(-, d) removes some information, leaving d bits per coefficient and Decompress is an "approximate inverse" of Compress;
• d_u, d_v are scheme parameters; and
• superscript T denotes transposition, so A^T is the transpose of A, see and t^T r is the dot product of t and r, see .

Distinguishing such a ciphertext and uniformly sampled (c_1, c_2) is an example of the full MLWER problem, see Section 4.4 of . To decrypt the ciphertext, one computes It it not straight-forward to see that this formula is correct. In fact, there is negligable but non-zero probability that a ciphertext does not decrypt correctly given by the DFP column in . This failure probability can be computed by a careful automated analysis of the probabilities involved, see kyber_failure.py of . To define all these operations precisely, we first define the field of coefficients for our polynomial ring; what it means to be small; and how to compress. Then we define the polynomial ring R; its operations and in particular the NTT. We continue with the different methods of sampling and (de)serialization. Then, we first define InnerPKE and finally Kyber proper.

The field GF(q) Kyber is defined over GF(q) = Z/qZ, the integers modulo q = 13*2^8+1 = 3329.

Size To define the size of a field element, we need a signed modulo. For any odd m, we write for the unique integer b with -(m-1)/2 < b <= (m-1)/2 and b = a modulo m. To avoid confusion, for the more familiar modulo we write umod; that is is the unique integer b with 0 <= b < m and b = a modulo m. Now we can define the norm of a field element: Examples: TODO (#23) Should we define smod and umod at all, since we don't use it.

Compression In several parts of the algorithm, we will need a method to compress fied elements down into d bits. To do this, we use the following method. For any positive integer d, integer x and integer 0 <= y < 2^d, we define where Round(x) rounds any fraction to the nearest integer going up with ties. Note that in we extend Compress and Decompress to polynomials and vectors of polynomials. These two operations have the following properties:

• 0 <= Compress(x, d) < 2^d
• 0 <= Decompress(y, d) < q
• Compress(Decompress(y, d), d) = y
• If Decompress(Compress(x, d), d) = x', then || x' - x || <= Round(q/2^(d+1))
• If x = x' modulo q, then Compress(x, d) = Compress(x', d)

For implementation efficiency, these can be computed as follows. > d ]]> where Div(x, a) = Floor(x / a). TODO Do we want to include the proof that this is correct? Do we need to define >> and <<?

The ring Rq Kyber is defined over a polynomial ring Rq = GF(q)[x]/(x^n+1) where n=256 (and q=3329). Elements of Rq are tuples of 256 integers modulo q. We will call them polynomials or elements interchangeably. A tuple a = (a_0, ..., a_255) represents the polynomial With polynomial coefficients, vector and matrix indices, we will start counting at zero.

Operations

Size of polynomials For a polynomial a = (a_0, ..., a_255) in R, we write: Thus a polynomial is considered large if one of its components is large.

Addition and subtraction Addition and subtraction of elements is componentwise. Thus and where addition/subtractoin in each component is computed modulo q.

Multiplication Multiplication is that of polynomials (convolution) with the additional rule that x^256=-1. To wit We will not use this schoolbook multiplication to compute the product. Instead we will use the more efficient, number theoretic transform (NTT), see .

Background on the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) The modulus q was chosen such that 256 divides into q-1. This means that there are zeta with With such a zeta, we can almost completely split the polynomial x^256+1 used to define R over GF(q): Note that the powers of zeta that appear in the second, fourth, ..., and final lines are in binary: That is: brv(2), brv(3), brv(4), ..., where brv(x) denotes the 7-bit bitreversal of x. The final line is brv(64), brv(65), ..., brv(127). These polynomials x^2 +- zeta^i are irreducible and coprime, hence by the Chinese Remainder Theorem for commutative rings, we know GF(q)[x]/(x^2-zeta) x ... x GF(q)[x]/(x^2+zeta^127) ]]> given by a |-> ( a mod x^2 - zeta, ..., a mod x^2 + zeta^127 ) is an isomorphism. This is the Number Theoretic Transform (NTT). Multiplication on the right is much easier: it's almost componentwise, see . A propos, the the constant factors that appear in the moduli in order can be computed efficiently as follows (all modulo q): To compute a multiplication in R efficiently, one can first use the NTT, to go to the right "into the NTT domain"; compute the multiplication there and move back with the inverse NTT. The NTT can be computed efficiently by performing each binary split of the polynomial separately as follows: ( a mod x^128 - zeta^64, a mod x^128 + zeta^64 ), |-> ( a mod x^64 - zeta^32, a mod x^64 + zeta^32, a mod x^64 - zeta^96, a mod x^64 + zeta^96 ), et cetera ]]> If we concatenate the resulting coefficients, expanding the definitions, for the first step we get: ( a_0 + zeta^64 a_128, a_1 + zeta^64 a_129, ... a_126 + zeta^64 a_254, a_127 + zeta^64 a_255, a_0 - zeta^64 a_128, a_1 - zeta^64 a_129, ... a_126 - zeta^64 a_254, a_127 - zeta^64 a_255) ]]> We can see this as 128 applications of the linear map CT_64, where (a + zeta^i b, a - zeta^i b) modulo q ]]> for the appropriate i in the following order, pictured in the case of n=16: For n=16 there are 3 levels with 1, 2 and 4 row groups respectively. For the full n=256, there are 7 levels with 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 and 64 row groups respectively. The appropriate power of zeta in the first level is brv(1)=64. The second level has brv(2) and brv(3) as powers of zeta for the top and bottom row group respectively, and so on. The CT_i is known as a Cooley-Tukey butterfly. Its inverse is given by the Gentleman-Sande butterfly: ( (a+b)/2, zeta^-i (a-b)/2 ) modulo q ]]> The inverse NTT can be computed by replacing CS_i by GS_i and flipping the diagram horizontally. TODO (#8) This section gives background not necessary for the implementation. Should we keep it?

Optimization notes The modular divisions by two in the InvNTT can be collected into a single modular division by 128. zeta^-i can be computed as -zeta^(128-i), which allows one to use the same precomputed table of powers of zeta for both the NTT and InvNTT. TODO Add hints on lazy Montgomery reduction? Including https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1377.pdf

NTT and InvNTT As primitive 256th root of unity we use zeta=17. As before, brv(i) denotes the 7-bit bitreversal of i, so brv(1)=64 and brv(91)=109. The NTT is a linear bijection R -> R given by the matrix: >1) + 1) (j>>1) } if i=j mod 2 (NTT)_{ij} = [ [ 0 otherwise ]]> Recall that we start counting rows and columns at zero. The NTT can be computed more efficiently as described in section . The inverse of the NTT is called InvNTT. It is given by the matrix: >1) + 1) (i>>1) } if i=j mod 2 128 (InvNTT)_{ij} = [ [ 0 otherwise ]]> Examples:

Multiplication in NTT domain For elements a, b in R, we write a o b for multiplication in the NTT domain. That is: a * b = InvNTT(NTT(a) o NTT(b)). Concretely: > 1) + 1} a_{i+1} b_{i+1} if i even (a o b)_i = [ [ a_{i-1} b_i + a_i b_{i-1} otherwise ]]>

Symmetric cryptographic primitives Kyber makes use of various symmertic primitives PRF, XOF, KDF, H and G, where Here counter is an octet; seed is 32 octets; prekey is 64 octets; and the length of msg varies. On the surface, they look different, but they are all based on the same flexible Keccak XOF that uses the f1600 permutation, see : The reason five different primitives are used is to ensure domain separation, which is crucial for security, cf. §2.2.5. Additionally, a smaller sponge capacity is used for performance where permissable by the security requirements.

Sampling of polynomials

Uniformly The polynomials in the matrix A are sampled uniformly and deterministically from an octet stream (XOF) using rejection sampling as follows. Three octets b_0, b_1, b_2 are read from the stream at a time. These are interpreted as two 12-bit unsigned integers d_1, d_2 via This creates a stream of 12-bit ds. Of these, the elements >= q are ignored. From the resultant stream, the coefficients of the polynomial are taken in order. In Python: > 4) + 16*b[2] for d in [d1, d2]: if d >= q: continue cs.append(d) if len(cs) == n: return Poly(cs) ]]> Example:

sampleMatrix Now, the k by k matrix A over R is derived deterministically from a 32-octet seed rho using sampleUniform as follows. That is, to derive the polynomial at the ith row and jth column, sampleUniform is called with the 34-octet seed created by first appending the octet j and then the octet i to rho. Recall that we start counting rows and columns from zero. As the NTT is a bijection, it does not matter whether we interpret the polynomials of the sampled matrix in the NTT domain or not. For efficiency, we do interpret the sampled matrix in the NTT domain.

From a binomial distribution Noise is sampled from a centered binomial distribution Binomial(2eta, 1/2) - eta deterministically as follows. An octet array a of length 64*eta is converted to a polynomial CBD(a, eta) where b = OctetsToBits(a). Examples:

sampleNoise A k component small vector v is derived from a seed 32-octet seed sigma, an offset offset and size eta as follows: Recall that we start counting vector indices at zero.

Vector and matrices

Operations on vectors Recall that Compress(x, d) maps a field element x into {0, ..., 2^d-1}. In Kyber d is at most 11 and so we can interpret Compress(x, d) as a field element again. In this way, we can extend Compress(-, d) to polynomials by applying to each coefficient separately and in turn to vectors by applying to each polynomial. That is, for a vector v and polynomial p:

Dot product and matrix multiplication We will also use "o", from section , to denote the dot product and matrix multiplication in the NTT domain. Concretely:

1. For two length k vector v and w, we write
2. For a k by k matrix A and a length k vector v, we have where A_i denotes the (i+1)th row of the matrix A as we start counting at zero.

Transpose For a matrix A, we denote by A^T the tranposed matrix. To wit: We define Decompress(-, d) for vectors and polynomials in the same way.

Serialization

OctetsToBits For any list of octets a_0, ..., a_{s-1}, we define OctetsToBits(a), which is a list of bits of length 8s, defined by >3)) >> (i umod 8)) umod 2. ]]> Example:

Encode and Decode For an integer 0 < w <= 12, we define Decode(a, w), which converts any list a of w*l/8 octets into a list of length l with values in {0, ..., 2^w-1} as follows. where b = OctetsToBits(a). Encode(-, w) is the unique inverse of Decode(-, w)

Polynomials A polynomial p is encoded by passing its coefficients to Encode: DecodePoly(-, w) is the unique inverse of EncodePoly(-, w).

Vectors A vector v of length k over R is encoded by concatenating the coefficients in the obvious way: DecodeVec(-, w) is the unique inverse of EncodeVec(-, w).

Inner malleable public-key encryption scheme We are ready to define the IND-CPA secure Public-Key Encryption scheme that underlies Kyber. It is unsafe to use this underlying scheme directly as its ciphertexts are malleable. Instead, a Public-Key Encryption scheme can be constructed on top of Kyber by using HPKE .

Parameters We have already been introduced to the following parameters:

q

Order of field underlying R.

n

Length of polynomials in R.

zeta

Primitive root of unity in GF(q), used for NTT in R.

XOF, H, G, PRF, KDF

Various symmetric primitives.

k

Main security parameter: the number of rows and columns in the matrix A.

Additionally, Kyber takes the following parameters

eta1, eta2

Size of small coefficients used in the private key and noise vectors.

d_u, d_v

How many bits to retain per coefficient of the u and v components of the ciphertext.

The values of these parameters are given in .

Key generation InnerKeyGen(seed) takes a 32 octet seed and deterministically produces a keypair as follows.

1. Set (rho, sigma) = G(seed).
2. Derive
   1. AHat = sampleMatrix(rho).
   2. s = sampleNoise(sigma, eta1, 0)
   3. e = sampleNoise(sigma, eta1, k)
3. Compute
   1. sHat = NTT(s)
   2. tHat = AHat o sHat + NTT(e)
4. Return
   1. publicKey = EncodeVec(tHat, 12) || rho
   2. privateKey = EncodeVec(sHat, 12)

Note that in essence we're simply computing t = A s + e.

Encryption InnerEnc(msg, publicKey, seed) takes a 32-octet seed, and deterministically encrypts the 32-octet msg for the InnerPKE public key publicKey as follows.

1. Split publicKey into
   1. k*(n/8)*12-octet tHatPacked
   2. 32-octet rho
2. Parse tHat = DecodeVec(tHatPacked, 12)
3. Derive
   1. AHat = sampleMatrix(rho)
   2. r = sampleNoise(seed, eta1, 0)
   3. e_1 = sampleNoise(seed, eta2, k)
   4. e_2 = sampleNoise(seed, eta2, 2k)_0
4. Compute
   1. rHat = NTT(r)
   2. u = InvNTT(AHat^T o rHat) + e_1
   3. v = InvNTT(tHat o rHat) + e_2 + Decompress(DecodePoly(msg, 1), 1)
   4. c_1 = EncodeVec(Compress(u, d_u), d_u)
   5. c_2 = EncodePoly(Compress(v, d_v), d_v)
5. Return
   1. cipherText = c_1 || c_2

Decryption InnerDec(cipherText, privateKey) takes an InnerPKE private key privateKey and decrypts a cipher text cipherText as follows.

1. Split cipherText into
   1. d_u*k*n/8-octet c_1
   2. d_v*n/8-octet c_2
2. Parse
   1. u = Decompress(DecodeVec(c_1, d_u), d_u)
   2. v = Decompress(DecodePoly(c_2, d_v), d_v)
   3. sHat = DecodeVec(privateKey, 12)
3. Compute
   1. m = v - InvNTT(sHat o NTT(u))
4. Return
   1. plainText = EncodePoly(Compress(m, 1), 1)

Kyber Now we are ready to define Kyber itself.

Key generation A Kyber keypair is derived deterministically from a 64-octet seed as follows.

1. Split seed into
   1. A 32-octet cpaSeed
   2. A 32-octet z
2. Compute
   1. (cpaPublicKey, cpaPrivateKey) = InnerKeyGen(cpaSeed)
   2. h = H(cpaPublicKey)
3. Return
   1. publicKey = cpaPublicKey
   2. privateKey = cpaPrivateKey || cpaPublicKey || h || z

Encapsulation Kyber encapsulation takes a public key and generates a shared secret and ciphertext for the public key as follows.

1. Sample secret cryptographically-secure random 32-octet seed.
2. Compute
   1. m = H(seed)
   2. (Kbar, cpaSeed) = G(m || H(publicKey))
   3. cpaCipherText = InnerEnc(m, publicKey, cpaSeed)
3. Return
   1. cipherText = cpaCipherText
   2. sharedSecret = KDF(KBar || H(cpaCipherText))

Decapsulation Kyber decapsulation takes a private key and a cipher text and returns a shared secret as follows.

1. Split privateKey into
   1. A 12*k*n/8-octet cpaPrivateKey
   2. A 12*k*n/8+32-octet cpaPublicKey
   3. A 32-octet h
   4. A 32-octet z
2. Compute
   1. m2 = InnerDec(cipherText, cpaPrivateKey)
   2. (KBar2, cpaSeed2) = G(m2 || h)
   3. cipherText2 = InnerEnc(m2, cpaPublicKey, cpaSeed2)
   4. K1 = KDF(KBar2 || H(cipherText))
   5. K2 = KDF(z || H(cipherText))
3. In constant-time, set K = K1 if cipherText == cipherText2 else set K = K2.
4. Return
   1. sharedSecret = K

For security, the implementation MUST NOT explicitly return or otherwise leak via a side-channel, decapsulation succeeded, viz cipherText == cipherText2.

Parameter sets Common parameters to all versions of Kyber

Name	Value	Description
q	3329	Order of base field
n	256	Degree of polynomials
zeta	17	nth root of unity in base field

Instantiation of symmetric primitives in Kyber

Primitive	Instantiation
XOF	SHAKE-128
H	SHA3-256
G	SHA3-512
PRF(s,b)	SHAKE-256(s || b)
KDF	SHAKE-256

Description of kyber parameters

Name	Description
k	Dimension of module
eta1, eta2	Size of "small" coefficients used in the private key and noise vectors.
d_u	How many bits to retain per coefficient of u, the private-key independent part of the ciphertext
d_v	How many bits to retain per coefficient of v, the private-key dependent part of the ciphertext.

Kyber parameter sets with NIST security level (sec) and decryption failure probability (DFP)

Parameter set	k	eta1	eta2	d_u	d_v	sec	DFP
Kyber512	2	3	2	10	4	I	2^-139
Kyber768	3	2	2	10	4	III	2^-164
Kyber1024	4	2	2	11	5	V	2^-174

Kyber parameter sets with sizes of shared secret (ss), public key (pk), cipher text (ct) and private key (sk)

Parameter set	ss	pk	ct	sk
Kyber512	32	800	768	1632
Kyber768	32	1184	1088	2400
Kyber1024	32	1568	1568	3168

Machine-readable specification (q-1)//2: r -= q return r # Rounds to nearest integer with ties going up def Round(x): return int(floor(x + 0.5)) def Compress(x, d): return Round((2**d / q) * x) % (2**d) def Decompress(y, d): assert 0 <= y and y <= 2**d return Round((q / 2**d) * y) def BitsToWords(bs, w): assert len(bs) % w == 0 return [sum(bs[i+j] * 2**j for j in range(w)) for i in range(0, len(bs), w)] def WordsToBits(bs, w): return sum([[(b >> i) % 2 for i in range(w)] for b in bs], []) def Encode(a, w): return bytes(BitsToWords(WordsToBits(a, w), 8)) def Decode(a, w): return BitsToWords(WordsToBits(a, 8), w) def brv(x): """ Reverses a 7-bit number """ return int(''.join(reversed(bin(x)[2:].zfill(nBits-1))), 2) class Poly: def __init__(self, cs=None): self.cs = (0,)*n if cs is None else tuple(cs) assert len(self.cs) == n def __add__(self, other): return Poly((a+b) % q for a,b in zip(self.cs, other.cs)) def __neg__(self): return Poly(q-a for a in self.cs) def __sub__(self, other): return self + -other def __str__(self): return f"Poly({self.cs}" def __eq__(self, other): return self.cs == other.cs def NTT(self): cs = list(self.cs) layer = n // 2 zi = 0 while layer >= 2: for offset in range(0, n-layer, 2*layer): zi += 1 z = pow(zeta, brv(zi), q) for j in range(offset, offset+layer): t = (z * cs[j + layer]) % q cs[j + layer] = (cs[j] - t) % q cs[j] = (cs[j] + t) % q layer //= 2 return Poly(cs) def RefNTT(self): # Slower, but simpler, version of the NTT. cs = [0]*n for i in range(0, n, 2): for j in range(n // 2): z = pow(zeta, (2*brv(i//2)+1)*j, q) cs[i] = (cs[i] + self.cs[2*j] * z) % q cs[i+1] = (cs[i+1] + self.cs[2*j+1] * z) % q return Poly(cs) def InvNTT(self): cs = list(self.cs) layer = 2 zi = n//2 while layer < n: for offset in range(0, n-layer, 2*layer): zi -= 1 z = pow(zeta, brv(zi), q) for j in range(offset, offset+layer): t = (cs[j+layer] - cs[j]) % q cs[j] = (inv2*(cs[j] + cs[j+layer])) % q cs[j+layer] = (inv2 * z * t) % q layer *= 2 return Poly(cs) def MulNTT(self, other): """ Computes self o other, the multiplication of self and other in the NTT domain. """ cs = [None]*n for i in range(0, n, 2): a1 = self.cs[i] a2 = self.cs[i+1] b1 = other.cs[i] b2 = other.cs[i+1] z = pow(zeta, 2*brv(i//2)+1, q) cs[i] = (a1 * b1 + z * a2 * b2) % q cs[i+1] = (a2 * b1 + a1 * b2) % q return Poly(cs) def Compress(self, d): return Poly(Compress(c, d) for c in self.cs) def Decompress(self, d): return Poly(Decompress(c, d) for c in self.cs) def Encode(self, d): return Encode(self.cs, d) def sampleUniform(stream): cs = [] while True: b = stream.read(3) d1 = b[0] + 256*(b[1] % 16) d2 = (b[1] >> 4) + 16*b[2] assert d1 + 2**12 * d2 == b[0] + 2**8 * b[1] + 2**16*b[2] for d in [d1, d2]: if d >= q: continue cs.append(d) if len(cs) == n: return Poly(cs) def CBD(a, eta): assert len(a) == 64*eta b = WordsToBits(a, 8) cs = [] for i in range(n): cs.append((sum(b[:eta]) - sum(b[eta:2*eta])) % q) b = b[2*eta:] return Poly(cs) def XOF(seed, j, i): h = SHAKE128.new() h.update(seed + bytes([j, i])) return h def PRF(seed, nonce): assert len(seed) == 32 h = SHAKE256.new() h.update(seed + bytes([nonce])) return h def G(seed): h = hashlib.sha3_512(seed).digest() return h[:32], h[32:] def H(msg): return hashlib.sha3_256(msg).digest() def KDF(msg): return hashlib.shake_256(msg).digest(length=32) class Vec: def __init__(self, ps): self.ps = tuple(ps) def NTT(self): return Vec(p.NTT() for p in self.ps) def InvNTT(self): return Vec(p.InvNTT() for p in self.ps) def DotNTT(self, other): """ Computes the dot product in NTT domain. """ return sum((a.MulNTT(b) for a, b in zip(self.ps, other.ps)), Poly()) def __add__(self, other): return Vec(a+b for a,b in zip(self.ps, other.ps)) def Compress(self, d): return Vec(p.Compress(d) for p in self.ps) def Decompress(self, d): return Vec(p.Decompress(d) for p in self.ps) def Encode(self, d): return Encode(sum((p.cs for p in self.ps), ()), d) def __eq__(self, other): return self.ps == other.ps def EncodeVec(vec, w): return Encode(sum([p.cs for p in vec.ps], ()), w) def DecodeVec(bs, k, w): cs = Decode(bs, w) return Vec(Poly(cs[n*i:n*(i+1)]) for i in range(k)) def DecodePoly(bs, w): return Poly(Decode(bs, w)) class Matrix: def __init__(self, cs): """ Samples the matrix uniformly from seed rho """ self.cs = tuple(tuple(row) for row in cs) def MulNTT(self, vec): """ Computes matrix multiplication A*vec in the NTT domain. """ return Vec(Vec(row).DotNTT(vec) for row in self.cs) def T(self): """ Returns transpose of matrix """ k = len(self.cs) return Matrix((self.cs[j][i] for j in range(k)) for i in range(k)) def sampleMatrix(rho, k): return Matrix([[sampleUniform(XOF(rho, j, i)) for j in range(k)] for i in range(k)]) def sampleNoise(sigma, eta, offset, k): return Vec(CBD(PRF(sigma, i+offset).read(64*eta), eta) for i in range(k)) def constantTimeSelectOnEquality(a, b, ifEq, ifNeq): # WARNING! In production code this must be done in a # data-independent constant-time manner, which this implementation # is not. In fact, many more lines of code in this # file are not constant-time. return ifEq if a == b else ifNeq def InnerKeyGen(seed, params): assert len(seed) == 32 rho, sigma = G(seed) A = sampleMatrix(rho, params.k) s = sampleNoise(sigma, params.eta1, 0, params.k) e = sampleNoise(sigma, params.eta1, params.k, params.k) sHat = s.NTT() eHat = e.NTT() tHat = A.MulNTT(sHat) + eHat pk = EncodeVec(tHat, 12) + rho sk = EncodeVec(sHat, 12) return (pk, sk) def InnerEnc(pk, msg, seed, params): assert len(msg) == 32 tHat = DecodeVec(pk[:-32], params.k, 12) rho = pk[-32:] A = sampleMatrix(rho, params.k) r = sampleNoise(seed, params.eta1, 0, params.k) e1 = sampleNoise(seed, eta2, params.k, params.k) e2 = sampleNoise(seed, eta2, 2*params.k, 1).ps[0] rHat = r.NTT() u = A.T().MulNTT(rHat).InvNTT() + e1 m = Poly(Decode(msg, 1)).Decompress(1) v = tHat.DotNTT(rHat).InvNTT() + e2 + m c1 = u.Compress(params.du).Encode(params.du) c2 = v.Compress(params.dv).Encode(params.dv) return c1 + c2 def InnerDec(sk, ct, params): split = params.du * params.k * n // 8 c1, c2 = ct[:split], ct[split:] u = DecodeVec(c1, params.k, params.du).Decompress(params.du) v = DecodePoly(c2, params.dv).Decompress(params.dv) sHat = DecodeVec(sk, params.k, 12) return (v - sHat.DotNTT(u.NTT()).InvNTT()).Compress(1).Encode(1) def KeyGen(seed, params): assert len(seed) == 64 z = seed[32:] pk, sk2 = InnerKeyGen(seed[:32], params) h = H(pk) return (pk, sk2 + pk + h + z) def Enc(pk, seed, params): assert len(seed) == 32 m = H(seed) Kbar, r = G(m + H(pk)) ct = InnerEnc(pk, m, r, params) K = KDF(Kbar + H(ct)) return (ct, K) def Dec(sk, ct, params): sk2 = sk[:12 * params.k * n//8] pk = sk[12 * params.k * n//8 : 24 * params.k * n//8 + 32] h = sk[24 * params.k * n//8 + 32 : 24 * params.k * n//8 + 64] z = sk[24 * params.k * n//8 + 64 : 24 * params.k * n//8 + 96] m2 = InnerDec(sk, ct, params) Kbar2, r2 = G(m2 + h) ct2 = InnerEnc(pk, m2, r2, params) return constantTimeSelectOnEquality( ct2, ct, KDF(Kbar2 + H(ct)), # if ct == ct2 KDF(z + H(ct)), # if ct != ct2 ) ]]>

Security Considerations Kyber512, Kyber768 and Kyber1024 are designed to be post-quantum IND-CCA2 secure KEMs, at the security levels of AES-128, AES-192 and AES-256. The designers of Kyber recommend Kyber768. The inner public key encryption SHOULD NOT be used directly, as its ciphertexts are malleable. Instead, for public key encryption, HPKE can be used to turn Kyber into IND-CCA2 secure PKE . Any implementation MUST use implicit rejection as specified in .

References Normative References n.d. In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. RFC 2119 specifies common key words that may be used in protocol specifications. This document aims to reduce the ambiguity by clarifying that only UPPERCASE usage of the key words have the defined special meanings. Informative References n.d. n.d. This document describes a scheme for hybrid public key encryption (HPKE). This scheme provides a variant of public key encryption of arbitrary-sized plaintexts for a recipient public key. It also includes three authenticated variants, including one that authenticates possession of a pre-shared key and two optional ones that authenticate possession of a key encapsulation mechanism (KEM) private key. HPKE works for any combination of an asymmetric KEM, key derivation function (KDF), and authenticated encryption with additional data (AEAD) encryption function. Some authenticated variants may not be supported by all KEMs. We provide instantiations of the scheme using widely used and efficient primitives, such as Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) key agreement, HMAC-based key derivation function (HKDF), and SHA2. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. n.d. University of Waterloo Cisco Systems University of Haifa and Amazon Web Services Hybrid key exchange refers to using multiple key exchange algorithms simultaneously and combining the result with the goal of providing security even if all but one of the component algorithms is broken. It is motivated by transition to post-quantum cryptography. This document provides a construction for hybrid key exchange in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol version 1.3. Discussion of this work is encouraged to happen on the TLS IETF mailing list tls@ietf.org or on the GitHub repository which contains the draft: https://github.com/dstebila/draft-stebila-tls-hybrid- design. Cloudflare, Inc. Cornell Tech Cloudflare, Inc. Stanford University Cloudflare, Inc. This document specifies a number of algorithms for encoding or hashing an arbitrary string to a point on an elliptic curve. This document is a product of the Crypto Forum Research Group (CFRG) in the IRTF. Cloudflare Cloudflare This memo defines X25519Kyber768Draft00, a hybrid post-quantum KEM, for HPKE (RFC9180). This KEM does not support the authenticated modes of HPKE. Cloudflare University of Waterloo This memo defines X25519Kyber768Draft00, a hybrid post-quantum key exchange for TLS 1.3.

Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank C. Wood, Florence D., I. Liusvaara, J. Crawford, J. Schanck, M. Thomson, and N. Sullivan for their input and assistance.

Change Log

• RFC Editor's Note: Please remove this section prior to publication of a final version of this document.

Since draft-schwabe-cfrg-kyber-02

• Fix a typo in the machine-readable specification, and use a proper SHAKE implementation. #5
• Add table with sizes.
• Reordered sections.
• Add reference to Kyber in HPKE.
• Miscellaneous editorial changes.
• Remove encapsulation seed as an explicit parameter in the written specification.
• Write security recommendations. #18
• Explain relation with ML-KEM.

Since draft-schwabe-cfrg-kyber-01

• Fix various typos.
• Move sections around.
• Elaborate domain separation and encoding of nonces in symmetric primitives.
• Add explicit formula for InvNTT.
• Add acknowledgements.

Since draft-schwabe-cfrg-kyber-00

• Test specification against NIST test vectors.
• Fix two unintentional mismatches between this document and the reference implementation:
  1. KDF uses SHAKE-256 instead of SHAKE-128.
  2. Reverse order of seed. (z comes at the end.)
• Elaborate text in particular introduction, and symmetric key section.