[Resource Topic] 2024/1252: Legendre Sequences are Pseudorandom under the Quadratic-Residuosity Assumption

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Title:
Legendre Sequences are Pseudorandom under the Quadratic-Residuosity Assumption

Authors: Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, David J. Wu

Abstract:

The Legendre sequence of an integer x modulo a prime p with respect to offsets \vec a = (a_1, \dots, a_\ell) is the string of Legendre symbols (\frac{x+a_1}{p}), \dots, (\frac{x+a_\ell}{p}). Under the quadratic-residuosity assumption, we show that the function that maps the pair (x,p) to the Legendre sequence of x modulo p, with respect to public random offsets \vec a, is a pseudorandom generator. This answers an open question of Damgård (CRYPTO 1988), up to the choice of the offsets \vec a.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1252

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