International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 30 June 2015

Justin Holmgren
ePrint Report ePrint Report
We show that the common proof technique of padding a circuit before IO obfuscation is sometimes necessary. That is, assuming indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) and one-way functions exist, we define samplers Sam_0, which outputs (aux_0, C_0), and Sam_1, which outputs (aux_1, C_1) such that:

- The distributions (aux_0, iO(C_0)) and (aux_1, iO(C_1)) are perfectly distinguishable.

- For padding s = poly(lambda)$, the distributions (aux_0, iO(C_0||0^s)) and (aux_1, iO(C_1||0^s)) are computationally indistinguishable.

We note this refutes the recent \"Superfluous Padding Assumption\" of Brzuska and Mittelbach.

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