Indistinguishability obfuscation with non-trivial efficiency

Huijia Lin, Rafael Pass, Karn Seth, Sidharth Telang

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Abstract

It is well known that inefficient indistinguishability obfuscators (iO) with running time poly(|C|, λ) · 2n, where C is the circuit to be obfuscated, λ is the security parameter, and n is the input length of C, exists unconditionally: simply output the function table of C (i. e., the output of C on all possible inputs). Such inefficient obfuscators, however, are not useful for applications. We here consider iO with a slightly “non-trivial” notion of efficiency: the running-time of the obfuscator may still be “trivial” (namely, poly(|C|, λ) · 2n), but we now require that the obfuscated code is just slightly smaller than the truth table of C (namely poly(|C|, λ) · 2n(1−ɛ), where ɛ > 0); we refer to this notion as iO with exponential efficiency, or simply exponentially-efficient iO (Xio). We show that, perhaps surprisingly, under the subexponential LWE assumption, subexponentiallysecure XiO for polynomial-size circuits implies (polynomial-time computable) iO for all polynomial-size circuits.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationPublic-Key Cryptography – PKC 2016 - 19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, Proceedings
EditorsChen-Mou Cheng, Kai-Min Chung, Bo-Yin Yang, Giuseppe Persiano
Pages447-462
Number of pages16
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2016 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: 6 Mar 20169 Mar 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9615

Conference

Conference19th IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory in Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2016
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period6/03/169/03/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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