[Resource Topic] 2023/550: New Baselines for Local Pseudorandom Number Generators by Field Extensions

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Title:
New Baselines for Local Pseudorandom Number Generators by Field Extensions

Authors: Akın Ünal

Abstract:

We will revisit recent techniques and results on the cryptoanalysis of local pseudorandom number generators (PRGs). By doing so, we will achieve a new attack on PRGs whose time complexity only depends on the algebraic degree of the PRG.

Concretely, against PRGs F : \{0,1\}^n\rightarrow \{0,1\}^{n^{1+e}} we will give an algebraic attack whose time complexity is bounded by
[\exp(O(\log(n)^{\deg F /(\deg F - 1)} \cdot n^{1-e/(\deg F -1)} ))]
and whose advantage is at least 1 - o(1) in the worst case.

To the best of the author’s knowledge, this attack outperforms current attacks on the pseudorandomness of local random functions with guaranteed noticeable advantage and gives a new baseline algorithm for local PRGs. Furthermore, this is the first subexponential attack that is applicable to polynomial PRGs of constant degree over fields of any size with a guaranteed noticeable advantage.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/550

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