Quantum pairwise-parallel mismatch attack on Kyber

Abstract

Quantum algorithm uses the quantum parallel method to calculate, which can better solve the encryption and decryption problems in cryptography and secure communication. This paper proposes a quantum pairwise-parallel mismatch attack on Kyber using the quantum binary search method. We first give quantum search methods for finding the secret key and show that our method can be applied to Kyber. Then, According to the proposed quantum search method, we compute the number of queries required and computational complexity for recovering the full key on Kyber. Compared with the existing results, our improved attack significantly reduces the number of queries and computational complexity.