An efficient pseudo-random generator provably as secure as syndrome decoding

  • Authors:
  • Jean-Bernard Fischer;Jacques Stern

  • Affiliations:
  • Thomson Consumer Electronics R&D France, Illkirch Cedex, France;Ecole Normale Supérieure, Laboratoire d'informatique Paris Cedex 05, France

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'96 Proceedings of the 15th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

We show a simple and efficient construction of a pseudo-random generator based on the intractability of an NP-complete problem from the area of error-correcting codes. The generalor is proved as secure as a hard instance of the syndrome decoding problem. Each application of the scheme generates a linear amount of bits in only quadratic computing time.