Welcome to the resource topic for 2015/1167
Title:
Constraining Pseudorandom Functions Privately
Authors: Dan Boneh, Kevin Lewi, David J. Wu
Abstract:In a constrained pseudorandom function (PRF), the master secret key can be used to derive constrained keys, where each constrained key k is constrained with respect to some Boolean circuit C. A constrained key k can be used to evaluate the PRF on all inputs x for which C(x) = 1. In almost all existing constrained PRF constructions, the constrained key k reveals its constraint C. In this paper we introduce the concept of private constrained PRFs, which are constrained PRFs with the additional property that a constrained key does not reveal its constraint. Our main notion of privacy captures the intuition that an adversary, given a constrained key k for one of two circuits C_0 and C_1, is unable to tell which circuit is associated with the key k. We show that constrained PRFs have natural applications to searchable symmetric encryption, cryptographic watermarking, and much more. To construct private constrained PRFs we first demonstrate that our strongest notions of privacy and functionality can be achieved using indistinguishability obfuscation. Then, for our main constructions, we build private constrained PRFs for bit-fixing constraints and for puncturing constraints from concrete algebraic assumptions.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1167
See all topics related to this paper.
Feel free to post resources that are related to this paper below.
Example resources include: implementations, explanation materials, talks, slides, links to previous discussions on other websites.
For more information, see the rules for Resource Topics .