Paper 2020/1010 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2020/1010 ↗

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Circular Security

Romain Gay
Rafael Pass
Abstract

We show the existence of indistinguishability obfuscators (iO) for general circuits assuming subexponential security of: - the Learning with Error (LWE) assumption (with subexponential modulus-to-noise ratio); - a circular security conjecture regarding the Gentry-Sahai-Water's (GSW) encryption scheme and a Packed version of Regev's encryption scheme. The circular security conjecture states that a notion of leakage-resilient security, that we prove is satisfied by GSW assuming LWE, is retained in the presence of an encrypted key-cycle involving GSW and Packed Regev. Our work thus places iO on qualitatively similar assumptions as (unlevelled) FHE, for which known constructions also rely on a circular security conjecture.

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History
2020-12-08: last updated
2020-08-22: published
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https://ia.cr/2020/1010
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1010,
      author = {Romain Gay and Rafael Pass},
      title = {Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Circular Security},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1010},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1010}
}
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