## Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2019/1025

On Perfect Correctness without Derandomization

Gilad Asharov and Naomi Ephraim and Ilan Komargodski and Rafael Pass

Abstract: We give a method to transform any indistinguishability obfuscator that suffers from correctness errors into an indistinguishability obfuscator that is $\textit{perfectly}$ correct, assuming hardness of Learning With Errors (LWE). The transformation requires sub-exponential hardness of the obfuscator and of LWE. Our technique also applies to eliminating correctness errors in general-purpose functional encryption schemes, but here it is sufficient to rely on the polynomial hardness of the given scheme and of LWE. Both of our results can be based $\textit{generically}$ on any perfectly correct, single-key, succinct functional encryption scheme (that is, a scheme supporting Boolean circuits where encryption time is a fixed polynomial in the security parameter and the message size), in place of LWE.

Previously, Bitansky and Vaikuntanathan (EUROCRYPT ’17) showed how to achieve the same task using a derandomization-type assumption (concretely, the existence of a function with deterministic time complexity $2^{O(n)}$ and non-deterministic circuit complexity $2^{\Omega(n)}$) which is non-game-based and non-falsifiable.

Category / Keywords: foundations / Indistinguishability Obfuscation, Correctness, Functional Encryption

Contact author: asharov at cornell edu,nephraim@cs cornell edu,komargodski@cornell edu,rafael@cs cornell edu

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