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Secure Sketch for All Noisy Sources (Noisy)

Information Theory 2020-01-22 v2 Cryptography and Security math.IT

Abstract

Secure sketch produces public information of its input ww without revealing it, yet, allows the exact recovery of ww given another value ww' that is close to ww. Therefore, it can be used to reliably reproduce any error-prone secret (i.e., biometrics) stored in secret storage. However, some sources have lower entropy compared to the error itself, formally called "more error than entropy", a standard secure sketch cannot show its security promise perfectly to these kind of sources. This paper focuses on secure sketch. We propose a concrete construction for secure sketch. We show security to all noisy sources, including the trivial source with zero min-entropy. In addition, our construction comes with efficient recovery algorithm operates in polynomial time in the sketch size, which can tolerate high number of error rate arbitrary close to 1/2. Above result acts in conjunction to our derivation on the solution to two NP-complete coding problems, suggesting P=NP.

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@article{arxiv.1911.10201,
  title  = {Secure Sketch for All Noisy Sources (Noisy)},
  author = {Yen-Lung Lai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.10201},
  year   = {2020}
}
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