Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Constant-Degree Graded Encoding Schemes

We construct a general-purpose indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) scheme for all polynomial-size circuits from {\em constant-degree} graded encoding schemes in the plain model, assuming the existence of a subexponentially secure Pseudo-Random Generator (PRG) computable by constant-degree arithmetic circuits (or equivalently in \NC^0), and the subexponential hardness of the Learning With Errors (LWE) problems. In contrast, previous general-purpose IO schemes all rely on polynomial-degree graded encodings. Our general-purpose IO scheme is built upon two key components: \begin{itemize} \item a new bootstrapping theorem that subexponentially secure IO for a subclass of {\em constant-degree arithmetic circuits} implies IO for all polynomial size circuits (assuming PRG and LWE as described above), and \item a new construction of IO scheme for any generic class of circuits in the ideal graded encoding model, in which the degree of the graded encodings is bounded by a variant of the degree, called type degree, of the obfuscated circuits. \end{itemize} In comparison, previous bootstrapping theorems start with IO for \NC^1, and previous constructions of IO schemes require the degree of graded encodings to grow polynomially in the size of the obfuscated circuits

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from DDH-like Assumptions on Constant-Degree Graded Encodings

All constructions of general purpose indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) rely on either meta-assumptions that encapsulate an exponential family of assumptions (e.g., Pass, Seth and Telang, CRYPTO 2014 and Lin, EUROCRYPT 2016), or polynomial families of assumptions on graded encoding schemes with a high polynomial degree/multilinearity (e.g., Gentry, Lewko, Sahai and Waters, FOCS 2014). We present a new construction of IO, with a security reduction based on two assumptions: (a) a DDH-like assumption — called the joint-SXDH assumption — on constant degree graded en- codings, and (b) the existence of polynomial-stretch pseudorandom generators (PRG) in NC0. Our assumption on graded encodings is simple, has constant size, and does not require handling composite-order rings. This narrows the gap between the mathematical objects that exist (bilinear maps, from elliptic curve groups) and ones that suffice to construct general purpose indistinguishability obfuscation

Multilinear Maps from Obfuscation

International audienceWe provide constructions of multilinear groups equipped with natural hard problems from in-distinguishability obfuscation, homomorphic encryption, and NIZKs. This complements known results on the constructions of indistinguishability obfuscators from multilinear maps in the reverse direction. We provide two distinct, but closely related constructions and show that multilinear analogues of the DDH assumption hold for them. Our first construction is symmetric and comes with a κ-linear map e : G κ −→ G T for prime-order groups G and G T. To establish the hardness of the κ-linear DDH problem, we rely on the existence of a base group for which the (κ − 1)-strong DDH assumption holds. Our second construction is for the asymmetric setting, where e : G 1 × · · · × G κ −→ G T for a collection of κ + 1 prime-order groups G i and G T , and relies only on the standard DDH assumption in its base group. In both constructions the linearity κ can be set to any arbitrary but a priori fixed polynomial value in the security parameter. We rely on a number of powerful tools in our constructions: (probabilistic) indistinguishability obfuscation, dual-mode NIZK proof systems (with perfect soundness, witness indistinguishability and zero knowledge), and additively homomorphic encryption for the group Z + N. At a high level, we enable " bootstrapping " multilinear assumptions from their simpler counterparts in standard cryptographic groups, and show the equivalence of IO and multilinear maps under the existence of the aforementioned primitives

On the Invalidity of LV16/Lin17 Obfuscation Schemes

Indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) is at the frontier of cryptography research for several years. LV16/Lin17 obfuscation schemes are famous progresses towards simplifying obfuscation mechanism. In fact, these two schemes only constructed two compact functional encryption (CFE) algorithms, while other things were taken to AJ15 IO frame or BV15 IO frame. That is, CFE algorithms are inserted into AJ15 IO frame or BV15 IO frame to form a complete IO scheme. The basic structure of two CFE algorithms can be described in the following way. The polynomial-time-computable Boolean function is transformed into a group of low-degree low-locality component functions by using randomized encoding, while some public combination of values of component functions is the value of original Boolean function. The encryptor uses constant-degree multilinear maps (rather than polynomial-degree multilinear maps) to encrypt independent variables of component functions. The decryptor uses zero-testing tool of multilinear maps to obtain values of component functions (rather than to obtain values of independent variables), and then uses public combination to obtain the value of original Boolean function. In this paper we restrict IO to be a real white box (RWB). Under such restriction we point out that LV16/Lin17 CFE algorithms being inserted into AJ15 IO frame are invalid. More detailedly, such insertion makes the adversary gradually learn the shape of the function, therefore the scheme is not secure. In other words, such scheme is not a real IO scheme, but rather a garbling scheme. It needs to be said that RWB restriction is reasonable, which means the essential contribution of IO for cryptography research

Multilinear Maps in Cryptography

Multilineare Abbildungen spielen in der modernen Kryptographie eine immer bedeutendere Rolle. In dieser Arbeit wird auf die Konstruktion, Anwendung und Verbesserung von multilinearen Abbildungen eingegangen

On Removing Graded Encodings from Functional Encryption

Functional encryption (FE) has emerged as an outstanding concept. By now, we know that beyond the immediate application to computation over encrypted data, variants with {\em succinct ciphertexts} are so powerful that they yield the full might of indistinguishability obfuscation (IO). Understanding how, and under which assumptions, such succinct schemes can be constructed has become a grand challenge of current research in cryptography. Whereas the first schemes were based themselves on IO, recent progress has produced constructions based on {\em constant-degree graded encodings}. Still, our comprehension of such graded encodings remains limited, as the instantiations given so far have exhibited different vulnerabilities. Our main result is that, assuming LWE, {\em black-box constructions} of {\em sufficiently succinct} FE schemes from constant-degree graded encodings can be transformed to rely on a much better-understood object --- {\em bilinear groups}. In particular, under an {\em über assumption} on bilinear groups, such constructions imply IO in the plain model. The result demonstrates that the exact level of ciphertext succinctness of FE schemes is of major importance. In particular, we draw a fine line between known FE constructions from constant-degree graded encodings, which just fall short of the required succinctness, and the holy grail of basing IO on better-understood assumptions. In the heart of our result, are new techniques for removing ideal graded encoding oracles from FE constructions. Complementing the result, for weaker ideal models, namely the generic-group model and the random-oracle model, we show a transformation from {\em collusion-resistant} FE in either of the two models directly to FE (and IO) in the plain model, without assuming bilinear groups

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Semantically-Secure Multilinear Encodings

We define a notion of semantic security of multilinear (a.k.a. graded) encoding schemes, which stipulates security of class of algebraic ``decisional\u27\u27 assumptions: roughly speaking, we require that for every nuPPT distribution $D$ over two \emph{constant-length} sequences $\vec{m}_0,\vec{m}_1$ and auxiliary elements $\vec{z}$ such that all arithmetic circuits (respecting the multilinear restrictions and ending with a zero-test) are \emph{constant} with overwhelming probability over $(\vec{m}_b, \vec{z})$, $b \in \{0,1\}$, we have that encodings of $\vec{m}_0, \vec{z}$ are computationally indistinguishable from encodings of $\vec{m}_1, \vec{z}$. Assuming the existence of semantically secure multilinear encodings and the LWE assumption, we demonstrate the existence of indistinguishability obfuscators for all polynomial-size circuits. We additionally show that if we assume subexponential hardness, then it suffices to consider a \emph{single} (falsifiable) instance of semantical security (i.e., that semantical security holds w.r.t to a particular distribution $D$) to obtain the same result. We rely on the beautiful candidate obfuscation constructions of Garg et al (FOCS\u2713), Brakerski and Rothblum (TCC\u2714) and Barak et al (EuroCrypt\u2714) that were proven secure only in idealized generic multilinear encoding models, and develop new techniques for demonstrating security in the standard model, based only on semantic security of multilinear encodings (which trivially holds in the generic multilinear encoding model). We also investigate various ways of defining an ``uber assumption\u27\u27 (i.e., a super-assumption) for multilinear encodings, and show that the perhaps most natural way of formalizing the assumption that ``any algebraic decision assumption that holds in the generic model also holds against nuPPT attackers\u27\u27 is false

구분불가능한 난독화의 수학적분석에 관한 연구

학위논문(박사)--서울대학교 대학원 :자연과학대학 수리과학부,2020. 2. 천정희.Indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) is a weak notion of the program obfuscation which requires that if two functionally equivalent circuits are given, their obfuscated programs are indistinguishable. The existence of iO implies numerous cryptographic primitives such as multilinear map, functional encryption, non interactive multi-party key exchange. In gen- eral, many iO schemes are based on branching programs, and candidates of multilinear maps represented by GGH13, CLT13 and GGH15. In this thesis, we present cryptanalyses of branching program based iO over multilinear maps GGH13 and GGH15. First, we propose cryptanaly- ses of all existing branching program based iO schemes over GGH13 for all recommended parameter settings. To achieve this, we introduce two novel techniques, program converting using NTRU-solver and matrix zeroiz- ing, which can be applied to a wide range of obfuscation constructions. We then show that there exists polynomial time reduction from the NTRU problem to all known branching program based iO over GGH13. Moreover, we propose a new attack on iO based on GGH15 which exploits statistical properties rather than algebraic approaches. We apply our attack to recent two obfuscations called CVW and BGMZ obfuscations. Thus, we break the CVW obfuscation under the current parameter setup, and show that algebraic security model of BGMZ obfuscation is not enough to achieve ideal security. We show that our attack is lying outside of the algebraic security model by presenting some parameters not captured by the proof of the model.기능성이 같은 두 프로그램과, 그 난독화된 프로그램들이 있을 때, 난독화된 프로그 램들을 구분할 수 없다면 구분불가능한 난독화라고 한다. 구분불가능한 난독화가 존재한다면, 다중선형함수, 함수암호, 다자간 키교환 등 많은 암호학적인 응용들이 존재하기 때문에, 구분불가능한 난독화를 설계하는 것은 매우 중요한 문제 중 하나 이다. 일반적으로, 많은 구분불가능한 난독화들은 다중선형함수 GGH13, CLT13, GGH15를 기반으로 하여 설계되었다. 본 학위 논문에서는, 다중선형함수를 기반으로 하는 난독화 기술들에 대한 안 전성 분석을 진행한다. 먼저, GGH13 다중선형함수를 기반으로 하는 모든 난독화 기술들은 현재 파라미터 하에 안전하지 않음을 보인다. 프로그램 변환(program converting), 행렬 제로화 공격(matrix zeroizing attack)이라는 두 가지 새로운 방 법을 제안하여 안전성을 분석하였고, 그 결과, 현존하는 모든 GGH13 다중선형함수 기반 난독화 기술이 다항식 시간 내에 NTRU 문제로 환원됨을 보인다. 또한, GGH15 다중선형함수를 기반으로 하는 난독화 기술에 대한 통계적인 공격방법을 제안한다. 통계적 공격방법을 최신 기술인 CVW 난독화, BGMZ 난독 화에 적용하여, CVW 난독화가 현재 파라미터에서 안전하지 않음을 보인다. 또한 BGMZ 난독화에서 제안한 대수적 안전성 모델이 이상적인 난독화 기술을 설계하 는데 충분하지 않다는 것을 보인다. 실제로, BGMZ 난독화가 안전하지 않은 특이한 파라미터를 제안하여, 우리 공격이 BGMZ에서 제안한 안전성 모델에 해당하지 않 음을 보인다.1. Introduction 1 1.1 Indistinguishability Obfuscation 1 1.2 Contributions 4 1.2.1 Mathematical Analysis of iO based on GGH13 4 1.2.2 Mathematical Analysis of iO based on GGH15 5 1.3 List of Papers 6 2 Preliminaries 7 2.1 Basic Notations 7 2.2 Indistinguishability Obfuscation 8 2.3 Cryptographic Multilinear Map 9 2.4 Matrix Branching Program 10 2.5 Tensor product and vectorization . 11 2.6 Background Lattices . 12 3 Mathematical Analysis of Indistinguishability Obfuscation based on the GGH13 Multilinear Map 13 3.1 Preliminaries 14 3.1.1 Notations 14 3.1.2 GGH13 Multilinear Map 14 3.2 Main Theorem 17 3.3 Attackable BP Obfuscations 18 3.3.1 Randomization for Attackable Obfuscation Model 20 3.3.2 Encoding by Multilinear Map 21 3.3.3 Linear Relationally Inequivalent Branching Programs 22 3.4 Program Converting Technique 23 3.4.1 Converting to R Program 24 3.4.2 Recovering and Converting to R/ Program 27 3.4.3 Analysis of the Converting Technique 28 3.5 Matrix Zeroizing Attack 29 3.5.1 Existing BP Obfuscations 31 3.5.2 Attackable BP Obfuscation, General Case 34 4 Mathematical Analysis of Indistinguishability Obfuscation based on the GGH15 Multilinear Map 37 4.1 Preliminaries 38 4.1.1 Notations 38 4.2 Statistical Zeroizing Attack . 39 4.2.1 Distinguishing Distributions using Sample Variance 42 4.3 Cryptanalysis of CVW Obfuscation 44 4.3.1 Construction of CVW Obfuscation 45 4.3.2 Cryptanalysis of CVW Obfuscation 48 4.4 Cryptanalysis of BGMZ Obfuscation 56 4.4.1 Construction of BGMZ Obfuscation 56 4.4.2 Cryptanalysis of BGMZ Obfuscation 59 5 Conclusions 65 6 Appendix 66 6.1 Appendix of Chapter 3 66 6.1.1 Extended Attackable Model 66 6.1.2 Examples of Matrix Zeroizing Attack 68 6.1.3 Examples of Linear Relationally Inequivalent BPs 70 6.1.4 Read-once BPs from NFA 70 6.1.5 Input-unpartitionable BPs from Barringtons Theorem 71 6.2 Appendix of Chapter 5 73 6.2.1 Simple GGH15 obfuscation 73 6.2.2 Modified CVW Obfuscation . 75 6.2.3 Transformation of Branching Programs 76 6.2.4 Modification of CVW Obfuscation 77 6.2.5 Assumptions of lattice preimage sampling 78 6.2.6 Useful Tools for Computing the Variances 79 6.2.7 Analysis of CVW Obfuscation 84 6.2.8 Analysis of BGMZ Obfuscation 97 Abstract (in Korean) 117Docto

Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions

In this work, we show how to construct indistinguishability obfuscation from subexponential hardness of four well-founded assumptions. We prove: Let $\tau \in (0,\infty), \delta \in (0,1), \epsilon \in (0,1)$ be arbitrary constants. Assume sub-exponential security of the following assumptions, where $\lambda$ is a security parameter, and the parameters $\ell,k,n$ below are large enough polynomials in $\lambda$: - The SXDH assumption on asymmetric bilinear groups of a prime order $p = O(2^\lambda)$, - The LWE assumption over $\mathbb{Z}_{p}$ with subexponential modulus-to-noise ratio $2^{k^\epsilon}$, where $k$ is the dimension of the LWE secret, - The LPN assumption over $\mathbb{Z}_p$ with polynomially many LPN samples and error rate $1/\ell^\delta$, where $\ell$ is the dimension of the LPN secret, - The existence of a Boolean PRG in $\mathsf{NC}^0$ with stretch $n^{1+\tau}$, Then, (subexponentially secure) indistinguishability obfuscation for all polynomial-size circuits exists

Indistinguishability Obfuscation: From Approximate to Exact

We show general transformations from subexponentially-secure approximate indistinguishability obfuscation (IO) where the obfuscated circuit agrees with the original circuit on a 1/2+ϵ fraction of inputs on a certain samplable distribution, into exact indistinguishability obfuscation where the obfuscated circuit and the original circuit agree on all inputs. As a step towards our results, which is of independent interest, we also obtain an approximate-to-exact transformation for functional encryption. At the core of our techniques is a method for “fooling” the obfuscator into giving us the correct answer, while preserving the indistinguishability-based security. This is achieved based on various types of secure computation protocols that can be obtained from different standard assumptions. Put together with the recent results of Canetti, Kalai and Paneth (TCC 2015), Pass and Shelat (TCC 2016), and Mahmoody, Mohammed and Nemathaji (TCC 2016), we show how to convert indistinguishability obfuscation schemes in various ideal models into exact obfuscation schemes in the plain model.National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CNS-1350619)National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CNS-1414119