[Resource Topic] 2015/704: Indistinguishability Obfuscation: from Approximate to Exact

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Title:
Indistinguishability Obfuscation: from Approximate to Exact

Authors: Nir Bitansky, Vinod Vaikuntanathan

Abstract:

We show general transformations from subexponentially-secure approximate indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) where the obfuscated circuit agrees with the original circuit on a 1/2+\epsilon fraction of inputs, into exact indistinguishability obfuscation where the obfuscated circuit and the original circuit agree on all inputs (except for a negligible probability over the coin tosses of the obfuscator). As a step towards our results, which is of independent interest, we also obtain an approximate-to-exact transformation for functional encryption. At the core of our techniques is a method for ``fooling’’ the obfuscator into giving us the correct answer, while preserving the indistinguishability-based security. This is achieved based on various types of secure computation protocols that can be obtained from different standard assumptions. Put together with the recent results of Canetti, Kalai and Paneth (TCC 2015), Pass and Shelat (Eprint 2015), and Mahmoody, Mohammed and Nemathaji (Eprint 2015), we show how to convert indistinguishability obfuscation schemes in various ideal models into exact obfuscation schemes in the plain model.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/704

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