Abstract
Oblivious compaction is a crucial building block for hash-based oblivious RAM. Asharov et al. recently gave a O(n) algorithm for oblivious tight compaction [2]. Their algorithm is deterministic and asymptotically optimal, but the implied constant is \({\gg }2^{111}\). We give a new algorithm for oblivious tight compaction that runs in time \({<}23913.17n + o(n)\). As part of our construction, we give a new result in the bootstrap percolation of random regular graphs.
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This work was supported in part by DARPA and NIWC Pacific under contract N66001-15-C-4065, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), via 2019-1902070008. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of ODNI, IARPA, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government is authorized to reproduce and distribute reprints for governmental purposes notwithstanding any copyright annotation therein.
Rafail Ostrovsky was supported in part by NSF-BSF Grant 1619348, US-Israel BSF grant 2012366, DARPA under Cooperative Agreement No: HR0011-20-2-0025, Google Faculty Award, JP Morgan Faculty Award, IBM Faculty Research Award, Xerox Faculty Research Award, OKAWA Foundation Research Award, B. John Garrick Foundation Award, Teradata Research Award, and Lockheed-Martin Corporation Research Award.
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Appendices
A Margulis Graph Compaction
1.1 A.1 Analysis of Algorithm 11
The argument here is similar to the argument in § 5.1, and is given in full in the full version of this paper [12].
B Combinatorial Lemmas
We state here a number of combinatorial lemmas we need throughout the paper, and give a citation if the result is well-known. For proofs and discussion, we refer to the full version of this paper [12].
Lemma 1
[Margulis [22]] There is a family of 4-regular expander graphs \(\{G_k\}_{k \ge 0}\) with girth satisfying \(|G_k| \ge 0.756 \log G_k\), with \(G_k = (p_k^3-p_k)\), for \(p_k\) the kth prime.
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The following result is due to Friedman [13] proving a conjecture of Alon.
Lemma 2
(Friedman). The probability that a random d-regular graph G on n vertices, with dn even and \(n > d\), has second eigenvalue \({\le }2\sqrt{d-1}+\epsilon \), is \(1-O(n^{-c})\).
The following is due to Steger and Wormald [32], though the algorithm was first studied by Rucinski and Wormald [29].
Lemma 3
(Steger, Wormald). There is an algorithm for generating a random d-regular graph, uniformly, in time \(O(nd^2)\).
Lemma 4
It is possible to test whether a d-regular graph G on n vertices is Ramanujan in time poly(n).
Combining these three results gives us an algorithm for generating a d-regular expander graph on n vertices in time poly(n). Since our expander graphs will have \(O(\log n)\) vertices, and we only need to generate \(O(\log n)\) such graphs, this is sufficient for our needs.
Lemma 5
Consider a random walk along the integers \(\mathbb {Z}\) where the probability of moving from i to \(i+1\) is \(f(\frac{i}{n})\) for some increasing function f. Let X be a random variable denoting the time it takes to walk from \(\rho n\) to \(\rho ' n\). Then
Lemma 6
Fix constants \(\gamma ' < \gamma \), and let A be an array of length n with \(\gamma ' n\) marked balls. Then if \(k\log n / \log \log n\) balls are chosen at random from A, the probability there are more than \(\gamma k\log n\) marked balls chosen is \(n^{-\frac{(\gamma -\gamma ')^2k}{(\gamma +\gamma ') \log \log n}}\).
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Lemma 7
Fix a constant \(c < 1\), and let A be an array of \(\varOmega (n/\log ^3 n)\) balls with at most \(|A|\exp \left( (c-1) \log n (\log \log n)^t\right) \) marked balls, for \(t > -2\). Then if \(k\log n/\log \log n\) balls are chosen at random from A, the probability there are more than \(\ell \log \log n\) marked balls chosen is \(\exp \left( -O(\log n (\log \log n)^{t+1})\right) \), for every choice of \(k,\ell > 0\). In particular, for \(t = 0\), it is negligible in n.
Lemma 8
Fix constants \(\varepsilon \), \(\gamma \) and k. Let A be an array of kn balls, with \(\gamma kn\) balls marked. Shuffle A and divide it into bins of size k. The probability that there are fewer than \(\left( (1-\gamma )^k-\varepsilon \right) n\) empty bins is \(e^{-cn}\), for some constant c.
C Proof of Theorem 2
Proof
Choose \(c > \frac{1}{2}\) and suppose by way of contradiction there is some set U with \(\frac{|U|}{|G|} > c\) that does not activate all of G under percolation. Let S be the set that is activated by U. Then we also have \(\frac{|S|}{|G|} > c\), and all vertices in \(T = G \backslash S\) have fewer than \(\lceil \frac{d+1}{2} \rceil \) edges to S. By the expander mixing lemma (see e.g. [17]) we have
when G is an expander graph. Taking \(T = G \backslash S\) gives
First consider the case when d is odd. We have
for \(d \ge 13\), so that, for c sufficiently close to 1, we have
and
Thus at least one vertex of T has at least \(\frac{d+1}{2}\) edges to S, and can be activated, a contradiction.
The proof for d even is similar, and relies on the fact that \(d=16\) is the smallest value with
Corollary C1
For \(d=13\), there is some constant \(\gamma \) such that every set S with \(|S|/|G| \ge (1-\gamma )^{d+1}\) is a percolating set for majority bootstrap percolation.
Proof
This is an immediate consequence of Theorem 2 but we derive \(\gamma \) explicitly. We desire
and so choose \(\gamma < 0.005307\).
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Dittmer, S., Ostrovsky, R. (2020). Oblivious Tight Compaction In O(n) Time with Smaller Constant. In: Galdi, C., Kolesnikov, V. (eds) Security and Cryptography for Networks. SCN 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57990-6_13
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