In this paper, we present a simple attack on LWE and Ring LWE encryption schemes used directly as Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs). This attack could work due to the fact that a key mismatch in a KEM is accessible to an adversary. Our method clearly indicates that any LWE or RLWE (or any similar type of construction) encryption directly used as KEM can be broken by modifying our attack method according to the respective cases.

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In this paper we consider the following two-phase obstacle-problem-like equation in the unit half-ball $$\Delta u = \lambda_{+\chi_{\{ u>0 \}}} - \lambda_{-\chi_{\{ u<0 \}}},\quad\lambda_{\pm}>0. $$ We prove that the free boundary touches the fixed boundary (uniformly) tangentially if the boundary data$f$and its first and second derivatives vanish at the touch-point.

In this paper, we investigate the boundary layer behavior of solutions to the one dimensional Broadwell model of the nonlinear Boltzmann equation for small mean free path. We consider the analogue of Maxwell's diffusive and the reflexive boundary conditions. It is found that even for such a simple model, there are boundary layers due to purely kinetic effects which cannot be detected by the corresponding Navier-Stokes system. It is also found numerically that a compressive boundary layer is not always stable in the sense that it may detach from the boundary and move into the interior of the gas as a shock layer.