Paper 2015/829

Reducing Depth in Constrained PRFs: From Bit-Fixing to NC1

Nishanth Chandran, Srinivasan Raghuraman, and Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy

Abstract

The candidate construction of multilinear maps by Garg, Gentry, and Halevi (Eurocrypt 2013) has lead to an explosion of new cryptographic constructions ranging from attribute-based encryption (ABE) for arbitrary polynomial size circuits, to program obfuscation, and to constrained pseudorandom functions (PRFs). Many of these constructions require k-linear maps for large k. In this work, we focus on the reduction of k in certain constructions of access control primitives that are based on k-linear maps; in particular, we consider the case of constrained PRFs and ABE. We construct the following objects: - A constrained PRF for arbitrary circuit predicates based on (n+l_{OR}-1)-linear maps (where n is the input length and l_{OR} denotes the OR-depth of the circuit). - For circuits with a specific structure, we also show how to construct such PRFs based on (n+l_{AND}-1)-linear maps (where l_{AND} denotes the AND-depth of the circuit). We then give a black-box construction of a constrained PRF for NC1 predicates, from any bit-fixing constrained PRF that fixes only one of the input bits to 1; we only require that the bit-fixing PRF have certain key homomorphic properties. This construction is of independent interest as it sheds light on the hardness of constructing constrained PRFs even for ``simple'' predicates such as bit-fixing predicates. Instantiating this construction with the bit-fixing constrained PRF from Boneh and Waters (Asiacrypt 2013) gives us a constrained PRF for NC1 predicates that is based only on n-linear maps, with no dependence on the predicate. In contrast, the previous constructions of constrained PRFs (Boneh and Waters, Asiacrypt 2013) required (n+l+1)-linear maps for circuit predicates (where l is the total depth of the circuit) and n-linear maps even for bit-fixing predicates. We also show how to extend our techniques to obtain a similar improvement in the case of ABE and construct ABE for arbitrary circuits based on (l_{OR}+1)-linear (respectively (l_{AND}+1)-linear) maps.

Note: Full version of the paper published in PKC 2016.

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Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in PKC 2016
Keywords
Constrained PRFsmultilinear mapsABE
Contact author(s)
dhinakaran2705 @ gmail com
History
2015-12-31: revised
2015-08-26: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2015/829
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/829,
      author = {Nishanth Chandran and Srinivasan Raghuraman and Dhinakaran Vinayagamurthy},
      title = {Reducing Depth in Constrained PRFs: From Bit-Fixing to NC1},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2015/829},
      year = {2015},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/829}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/829}
}
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