Cryptography with auxiliary input and trapdoor from constant-noise LPN

  • Yu Yu*
  • , Jiang Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Dodis, Kalai and Lovett (STOC 2009) initiated the study of the Learning Parity with Noise (LPN) problem with (static) exponentially hard-to-invert auxiliary input. In particular, they showed that under a new assumption (called Learning Subspace with Noise) the above is quasi-polynomially hard in the high (polynomially close to uniform) noise regime. Inspired by the “sampling from subspace” technique by Yu (eprint 2009/467) and Goldwasser et al. (ITCS 2010), we show that standard LPN can work in a mode (reducible to itself) where the constantnoise LPN (by sampling its matrix from a random subspace) is robust against sub-exponentially hard-to-invert auxiliary input with comparable security to the underlying LPN. Plugging this into the framework of [DKL09], we obtain the same applications as considered in [DKL09] (i.e., CPA/CCA secure symmetric encryption schemes, average-case obfuscators, reusable and robust extractors) with resilience to a more general class of leakages, improved efficiency and better security under standard assumptions. As a main contribution, under constant-noise LPN with certain subexponential hardness (i.e., 2ω(n1/2) for secret size n) we obtain a variant of the LPN with security on poly-logarithmic entropy sources, which in turn implies CPA/CCA secure public-key encryption (PKE) schemes and oblivious transfer (OT) protocols. Prior to this, basing PKE and OT on constant-noise LPN had been an open problem since Alekhnovich’s work (FOCS 2003).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology - 36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2016, Proceedings
EditorsMatthew Robshaw, Jonathan Katz
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages241-243
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9783662530177
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2016 - Santa Barbara, United States
Duration: 14 Aug 201618 Aug 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9814
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference36th Annual International Cryptology Conference, CRYPTO 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Barbara
Period14/08/1618/08/16

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