Efficiency improvements in constructing pseudorandom generators from one-way functions

Iftach Haitner, Omer Reingold, Salil Vadhan

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Abstract

We give a new construction of pseudorandom generators from any one-way function. The construction achieves better parameters and is simpler than that given in the seminal work of Hastad, Impagliazzo, Levin, and Luby [SIAM J. Comput., 28 (1999), pp. 1364.1396]. The key to our construction is a new notion of next-block pseudoentropy, which is inspired by the notion of inaccessible entropy±; recently introduced in [I. Haitner, O. Reingold, S. Vadhan, and H. Wee, Proceedings of the 41st Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC), 2009, pp. 611. 620]. An additional advantage over previous constructions is that our pseudorandom generators are parallelizable and invoke the one-way function in a nonadaptive manner. Using [B. Applebaum, Y. Ishai, and E. Kushilevitz, SIAM J. Comput., 36 (2006), pp. 845.888], this implies the existence of pseudorandom generators in NC0 based on the existence of one-way functions in NC1.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1405-1430
Number of pages26
JournalSIAM Journal on Computing
Volume42
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Keywords

  • One-way functions
  • Pseudoentropy
  • Pseudorandom generators

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Computer Science
  • General Mathematics

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