Adaptively Secure Puncturable Pseudorandom Functions in the Standard Model

Susan Hohenberger; Venkata Koppula; Brent Waters

Paper 2014/521

Adaptively Secure Puncturable Pseudorandom Functions in the Standard Model

Susan Hohenberger, Venkata Koppula, and Brent Waters

Abstract

We study the adaptive security of constrained PRFs in the standard model. We initiate our exploration with puncturable PRFs. A puncturable PRF family is a special class of constrained PRFs, where the constrained key is associated with an element $x'$ in the input domain. The key allows evaluation at all points $x\neq x'$. We show how to build puncturable PRFs with adaptive security proofs in the standard model that involve only polynomial loss to the underlying assumptions. Prior work had either super-polynomial loss or applied the random oracle heuristic. Our construction uses indistinguishability obfuscation and DDH-hard algebraic groups of composite order.

Note: The artificial abort step was missing in the analysis. It is included in the description of Game 1 (page 10).

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: A minor revision of an IACR publication in ASIACRYPT 2015
Keywords: puncturable pseudorandom functions adaptive security
Contact author(s): kvenkata @ cs utexas edu
History: 2015-11-26: last of 2 revisions; 2014-07-07: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2014/521
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/521,
      author = {Susan Hohenberger and Venkata Koppula and Brent Waters},
      title = {Adaptively Secure Puncturable Pseudorandom Functions in the Standard Model},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/521},
      year = {2014},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/521}
}