## Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2010/329

On the Security of Pseudorandomized Information-Theoretically Secure Schemes

Koji Nuida and Goichiro Hanaoka

Abstract: In this article, we discuss a naive method of randomness reduction for cryptographic schemes, which replaces the required perfect randomness with output distribution of a computationally secure pseudorandom generator (PRG). We propose novel ideas and techniques for evaluating the indistinguishability between the random and pseudorandom cases, even against an adversary with computationally unbounded attack algorithm. Hence the PRG-based randomness reduction can be effective even for information-theoretically secure cryptographic schemes, especially when the amount of information received by the adversary is small. In comparison to a preceding result of Dubrov and Ishai (STOC 2006), our result removes the requirement of generalized notion of nb-PRGs'' and is effective for more general kinds of protocols. We give some numerical examples to show the effectiveness of our result in practical situations, and we also propose a further idea for improving the effect of the PRG-based randomness reduction.

Category / Keywords: foundations / foundations, pseudo-randomness, information-theoretic security

Publication Info: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.59, no.1 (2013) 635-652

Date: received 3 Jun 2010, last revised 20 Jan 2013

Contact author: k nuida at aist go jp

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Note: This article is the mergence of two preliminary versions of this work presented at The 4th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security (ICITS 2009), Shizuoka, Japan, December 3--6, 2009. (version 2) The overall organization of the paper is revised

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