International Association
for Cryptologic Research

We revisit ``the randomized iterate\'\' technique that was originally used by Goldreich, Krawczyk, and Luby (SICOMP 1993) and refined by Haitner, Harnik and Reingold (CRYPTO 2006) in constructing pseudorandom generators (PRGs) from regular one-way functions (OWFs). We abstract out a technical lemma with connections to several recent work on cryptography with imperfect randomness, which provides an arguably simpler and more modular proof for the Haitner-Harnik-Reingold PRGs from regular OWFs.

We extend the approach to a more general construction of PRGs with seed length $O(n{\\log}n)$ from a broader class of OWFs. More specifically, consider an arbitrary one-way function $f$ whose range is divided into sets $\\Y_1$, $\\Y_2$, $\\ldots$, $\\Y_n$ where each $\\Y_i\\eqdef\\{y:2^{i-1}\\le|f^{-1}(y)|