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The Security of Hardware-Based Omega(n^2) Cryptographic One-Way Functions: Beyond Satisfiability and P=NP

Computational Complexity 2016-10-25 v1 Cryptography and Security

Abstract

We present a class of hardware-based cryptographic one-way functions that, in practice, would be hard to invert even if P=NP and linear-time satisfiability algorithms exist. Such functions use a hardware-based component with omega(n^2) size circuits, and omega(n^2) run time.

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@article{arxiv.1610.07190,
  title  = {The Security of Hardware-Based Omega(n^2) Cryptographic One-Way Functions: Beyond Satisfiability and P=NP},
  author = {Javier A. Arroyo-Figueroa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.07190},
  year   = {2016}
}