(Almost) optimal constructions of UOWHFs from 1-to-1, regular one-way functions and beyond

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Abstract

We revisit the problem of black-box constructions of universal one-way hash functions (UOWHFs) from several typical classes of one-way functions (OWFs), and give respective constructions that either improve or generalize the best previously known. – For any 1-to-1 one-way function, we give an optimal construction of UOWHFs with key and output length Θ(n) by making a single call to the underlying OWF. This improves the constructions of Naor and Yung (STOC 1989) and De Santis and Yung (Eurocrypt 1990) that need key length O(n · ω(log n)). – For any known-(almost-)regular one-way function with known hardness, we give an optimal construction of UOWHFs with key and output length Θ(n) and a single call to the one-way function. – For any known-(almost-)regular one-way function, we give a construction of UOWHFs with key and output length O(n·ω(1)) and by making ω(1) non-adaptive calls to the one-way function. This improves the construction of Barhum and Maurer (Latincrypt 2012) that requires key and output length O(n·ω(log n)) and ω(log n) calls. – For any weakly-regular one-way function introduced by Yu et al. at TCC 2015 (i.e., the set of inputs with maximal number of siblings is of an n −c-fraction for some constant c), we give a construction of UOWHFs with key length O(n·logn) and output length Θ(n). This generalizes the construction of Ames et al. (Asiacrypt 2012) which requires an unknown-regular one-way function (i.e., c = 0). Along the way, we use several techniques that might be of independent interest. We show that almost 1-to-1 (except for a negligible fraction) one-way functions and known (almost-)regular one-way functions are equivalent in the known-hardness (or non-uniform) setting, by giving an optimal construction of the former from the latter. In addition, we show how to transform any one-way function that is far from regular (but only weakly regular on a noticeable fraction of domain) into an almost-regular one-way function.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2015 - 35th Annual Cryptology Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMatthew Robshaw, Rosario Gennaro
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages209-229
Number of pages21
ISBN (Print)9783662479995
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event35th Annual Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2015 - Santa Barbara, United States
Duration: 16 Aug 201520 Aug 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9216
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference35th Annual Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara
Period16/08/1520/08/15

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