[Resource Topic] 2017/1159: Cryptanalysis of indistinguishability obfuscation using GGH13 without ideals

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Title:
Cryptanalysis of indistinguishability obfuscation using GGH13 without ideals

Authors: Gu Chunsheng

Abstract:

Recently, Albrecht, Davidson and Larraia described a variant of the GGH13 without ideals and presented the distinguishing attacks in simplified branching program security model. Their result partially demonstrates that there seems to be a structural defect in the GGH13 encoding that is not related to the ideal \langle g \rangle. However, it is not clear whether a variant of the CGH attack described by Chen, Gentry and Halevi can be used to break a branching program obfuscator instantiated by GGH13 without ideals. Consequently this is left as an open problem by Albrecht, Davidson and Larraia. In this paper, we describe a variant of the CGH attack which breaks the branching program obfuscator using GGH13 without ideals. To achieve this goal, we introduce matrix approximate eigenvalues and build a relationship between the determinant and the rank of a matrix with noise. Our result further strengthens the work of Albrecht, Davidson and Larraia that there is a structural weakness in `GGH13-type’ encodings beyond the presence of \langle g \rangle.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1159

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