Simple extractors via constructions of cryptographic pseudo-random generators

  • Authors:
  • Marius Zimand

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Baltimore, MD, United States

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Trevisan has shown that constructions of pseudo-random generators from hard functions (the Nisan-Wigderson approach) also produce extractors. We show that constructions of pseudo-random generators from one-way permutations (the Blum-Micali-Yao approach) can be used for building extractors as well. Using this new technique we build extractors that do not use designs or polynomial-based error-correcting codes and that are very simple and efficient. For example, one extractor produces each output bit separately in O(log^2n) time. These extractors work for weak sources with min-entropy @ln, for arbitrary constant @l0, have seed length O(log^2n), and their output length is ~n^@l^/^3.