[Resource Topic] 2005/211: Games and the Impossibility of Realizable Ideal Functionality

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Title:
Games and the Impossibility of Realizable Ideal Functionality

Authors: Anupam Datta, Ante Derek, John C. Mitchell, Ajith Ramanathan, Andre Scedrov

Abstract:

A cryptographic primitive or a security mechanism can be specified in
a variety of ways, such as a condition involving a game against an
attacker, construction of an ideal functionality, or a list of
properties that must hold in the face of attack.
While game conditions are widely used, an
ideal functionality is appealing because a mechanism that
is indistinguishable from an ideal functionality
is therefore guaranteed secure in any larger system that uses it.
We relate ideal functionalities to games by defining the \textit{set}
of ideal functionalities associated with a game condition
and show that under this definition, which reflects
accepted use and known examples, bit commitment,
a form of group signatures, and some other cryptographic concepts
do not have any realizable ideal functionality.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/211

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