A Feebly Secure Trapdoor Function

  • Authors:
  • Edward A. Hirsch;Sergey I. Nikolenko

  • Affiliations:
  • Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg, Russia;Steklov Institute of Mathematics at St.Petersburg, Russia

  • Venue:
  • CSR '09 Proceedings of the Fourth International Computer Science Symposium in Russia on Computer Science - Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In 1992, A. Hiltgen [1] provided the first constructions of provably (slightly) secure cryptographic primitives, namely feebly one-way functions . These functions are provably harder to invert than to compute, but the complexity (viewed as circuit complexity over circuits with arbitrary binary gates) is amplified by a constant factor only (with the factor approaching 2). In traditional cryptography, one-way functions are the basic primitive of private-key and digital signature schemes, while public-key cryptosystems are constructed with trapdoor functions. We continue Hiltgen's work by providing an example of a feebly trapdoor function where the adversary is guaranteed to spend more time than every honest participant by a constant factor of $\frac{25}{22}$.