[Resource Topic] 2021/926: On Treewidth, Separators and Yao's Garbling

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Title:
On Treewidth, Separators and Yao’s Garbling

Authors: Chethan Kamath, Karen Klein, Krzysztof Pietrzak

Abstract:

We show that Yao’s garbling scheme is adaptively indistinguishable for the class of Boolean circuits of size S and treewidth w with only a S^O(w) loss in security. For instance, circuits with constant treewidth are as a result adaptively indistinguishable with only a polynomial loss. This (partially) complements a negative result of Applebaum et al. (Crypto 2013), which showed (assuming one-way functions) that Yao’s garbling scheme cannot be adaptively simulatable. As main technical contributions, we introduce a new pebble game that abstracts out our security reduction and then present a pebbling strategy for this game where the number of pebbles used is roughly O(d w log(S)), d being the fan-out of the circuit. The design of the strategy relies on separators, a graph-theoretic notion with connections to circuit complexity.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/926

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWbYGkGTVyY

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