Paper 2016/514

Cryptography with Auxiliary Input and Trapdoor from Constant-Noise LPN

Yu Yu and Jiang Zhang

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 constant-noise 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 sub-exponential hardness (i.e., $2^{\omega(n^{1/2})}$ 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).

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Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in CRYPTO 2016
Keywords
Cryptography with Auxiliary InputLearning Parity with NoisePost-quantum CryptographyPublic-Key Encryption
Contact author(s)
yuyuathk @ gmail com
History
2016-05-30: revised
2016-05-29: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/514
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/514,
      author = {Yu Yu and Jiang Zhang},
      title = {Cryptography with Auxiliary Input and Trapdoor from Constant-Noise LPN},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/514},
      year = {2016},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/514}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/514}
}
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