Extending the limits for big data RSA cracking: Towards cache-oblivious TU decomposition

Abstract

Nowadays, Big Data security processes require mining large amounts of content that was traditionally not typically used for security analysis in the past. The RSA algorithm has become the de facto standard for encryption, especially for data sent over the internet. RSA takes its security from the hardness of the Integer Factorisation Problem. As the size of the modulus of an RSA key grows with the number of bytes to be encrypted, the corresponding linear system to be solved in the adversary integer factorisation algorithm also grows. In the age of big data this makes it compelling to redesign linear solvers over finite fields so that they exploit the memory hierarchy. To this end, we examine several matrix layouts based on space-filling curves that allow for a cache-oblivious adaptation of parallel TU decomposition for rectangular matrices over finite fields. The TU algorithm of Dumas and Roche (2002) requires index conversion routines for which the cost to encode and decode the chosen curve is significant. Using a detailed analysis of the number of bit operations required for the encoding and decoding procedures, and filtering the cost of lookup tables that represent the recursive decomposition of the Hilbert curve, we show that the Morton-hybrid order incurs the least cost for index conversion routines that are required throughout the matrix decomposition as compared to the Hilbert, Peano, or Morton orders. The motivation lies in that cache efficient parallel adaptations for which the natural sequential evaluation order demonstrates lower cache miss rate result in overall faster performance on parallel machines with private or shared caches and on GPU’s.