Collision-Free Hashing from Lattice Problems

In 1995, Ajtai described a construction of one-way functions whose security is equivalent to the difficulty of some well known approximation problems in lattices. We show that essentially the same construction can also be used to obtain collision-free hashing. This paper contains a self-contained pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Goldreich, Oded, Goldwasser, Shafrira, Halevi, Shai
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2019
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/121244
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Summary:In 1995, Ajtai described a construction of one-way functions whose security is equivalent to the difficulty of some well known approximation problems in lattices. We show that essentially the same construction can also be used to obtain collision-free hashing. This paper contains a self-contained proof sketch of Ajtai's result. Keywords: Integer Lattices, One-EWay Functions, Worst-Case to Average-Case Reductions, Collision-Resistent Hashing