From non-adaptive to adaptive pseudorandom functions

Itay Berman*, Iftach Haitner

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Abstract

Unlike the standard notion of pseudorandom functions (PRF), a non-adaptive PRF is only required to be indistinguishable from random in the eyes of a non-adaptive distinguisher (i.e., one that prepares its oracle calls in advance). A recent line of research has studied the possibility of a direct construction of adaptive PRFs from non-adaptive ones, where direct means that the constructed adaptive PRF uses only few (ideally, constant number of) calls to the underlying non-adaptive PRF. Unfortunately, this study has only yielded negative results, showing that "natural" such constructions are unlikely to exist (e.g., Myers [EUROCRYPT '04], Pietrzak [CRYPTO '05, EUROCRYPT '06]).. We give an affirmative answer to the above question, presenting a direct construction of adaptive PRFs from non-adaptive ones. Our construction is extremely simple, a composition of the non-adaptive PRF with an appropriate pairwise independent hash function.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTheory of Cryptography - 9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012, Proceedings
Pages357-368
Number of pages12
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012 - Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Duration: 19 Mar 201221 Mar 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7194 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference9th Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTaormina, Sicily
Period19/03/1221/03/12

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