An improvement of pseudorandomization against unbounded attack algorithms: the case of fingerprint codes

  • Authors:
  • Koji Nuida;Goichiro Hanaoka

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Center for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan;Research Center for Information Security, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICITS'09 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Information theoretic security
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, the authors proposed an evaluation technique for pseudorandom generator-based randomness reduction of cryptographic schemes against computationally unbounded attack algorithms. In this article, we apply the technique to the case of fingerprint codes and verify the effectiveness. Then we propose a technique that improves the randomness reduction by dividing the target randomness into suitable parts and using a separate pseudorandom generator for each part. Considering fingerprint codes as a typical example, we give a theoretical evaluation of the proposed technique, and also a numerical evaluation showing that our technique improves the effect of randomness reduction to about 29 times as good as the plain randomness reduction in a reasonable setting.