Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2002, Volume 2442/2002, 191-214, DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45708-9_8

Separating Random Oracle Proofs from Complexity Theoretic Proofs: The Non-committing Encryption Case

Jesper Buus Nielsen

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Abstract

We show that there exists a natural protocol problem which has a simple solution in the random-oracle (RO) model and which has no solution in the complexity-theoretic (CT) model, namely the problem of constructing a non-interactive communication protocol secure against adaptive adversaries a.k.a. non-interactive non-committing encryption. This separation between the models is due to the so-called programability of the random oracle. We show this by providing a formulation of the RO model in which the oracle is not programmable, and showing that in this model, there does not exist non-interactive non-committing encryption.
Basic Research in Computer Science, Centre of the Danish National Research Foundation.

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