Flexible partial enlargement to accelerate Gröbner basis computation over double-struck F2

Abstract

Recent developments in multivariate polynomial solving algorithms have made algebraic cryptanalysis a plausible threat to many cryptosystems. However, theoretical complexity estimates have shown this kind of attack unfeasible for most realistic applications. In this paper we present a strategy for computing Gröbner basis that challenges those complexity estimates. It uses a flexible partial enlargement technique together with reduced row echelon forms to generate lower degree elements-mutants. This new strategy surpasses old boundaries and obligates us to think of new paradigms for estimating complexity of Gröbner basis computation. The new proposed algorithm computed a Gröbner basis of a degree 2 random system with 32 variables and 32 equations using 30 GB which was never done before by any known Gröbner bases solver. © 2010 Springer-Verlag.