Paper 2018/555
Limits on the Power of Garbling Techniques for Public-Key Encryption
Sanjam Garg, Mohammad Hajiabadi, Mohammad Mahmoody, and Ameer Mohammed
Abstract
Understanding whether public-key encryption can be based on one-way functions is a fundamental open problem in cryptography. The seminal work of Impagliazzo and Rudich [STOC'89] shows that black-box constructions of public-key encryption from one-way functions are impossible. However, this impossibility result leaves open the possibility of using non-black-box techniques for achieving this goal. One of the most powerful classes of non-black-box techniques, which can be based on one-way functions (OWFs) alone, is Yao's garbled circuit technique [FOCS'86]. As for the non-black-box power of this technique, the recent work of Dottling and Garg [CRYPTO'17] shows that the use of garbling allows us to circumvent known black-box barriers in the context of identity-based encryption. We prove that garbling of circuits that have OWF (or even random oracle) gates in them are insufficient for obtaining public-key encryption. Additionally, we show that this model also captures (non-interactive) zero-knowledge proofs for relations with OWF gates. This indicates that currently known OWF-based non-black-box techniques are perhaps insufficient for realizing public-key encryption.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Publication info
- Published by the IACR in CRYPTO 2018
- Keywords
- Public-key encryptionone-way functionblack-box constructionsnon-black-box separationsgarbling schemes
- Contact author(s)
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sanjamg @ berkeley edu
mdhajiabadi @ berkeley edu
mohammad @ virginia edu
am8zv @ virginia edu - History
- 2018-06-04: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2018/555
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2018/555, author = {Sanjam Garg and Mohammad Hajiabadi and Mohammad Mahmoody and Ameer Mohammed}, title = {Limits on the Power of Garbling Techniques for Public-Key Encryption}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2018/555}, year = {2018}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/555} }