Paper 2021/1275

Counterexample to OWF Self-XOR Being a DOWF

Nathan Geier

Abstract

We study the effects of the XOR transformation, that is, $f^{\oplus 2}(x_1,x_2):= f(x_1)\oplus f(x_2)$, on one-wayness. More specifically, we present an example showing that if one-way functions exist, there also exists a one-way function $f$ such that $f^{\oplus 2}$ is not even a distributional one-way function, demonstrating that one-wayness may severely deteriorate.

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Category
Foundations
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
one-way functionsdistributional one-way functionsXOR
Contact author(s)
nathangeier @ mail tau ac il
History
2021-09-24: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1275
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1275,
      author = {Nathan Geier},
      title = {Counterexample to OWF Self-XOR Being a DOWF},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1275},
      year = {2021},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1275}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1275}
}
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