TY - GEN
T1 - Coin flipping with constant bias implies one-way functions
AU - Haitner, Iftach
AU - Omri, Eran
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - It is well known (cf., Impagliazzo and Luby [FOCS '89]) that the existence of almost all "interesting" cryptographic applications, i.e., ones that cannot hold information theoretically, implies one-way functions. An important exception where the above implication is not known, however, is the case of coin-flipping protocols. Such protocols allow honest parties to mutually flip an unbiased coin, while guaranteeing that even a cheating (efficient) party cannot bias the output of the protocol by much. Impagliazzo and Luby proved that coin-flipping protocols that are safe against negligible bias do imply one-way functions, and, very recently, Maji, Prabhakaran, and Sahai [FOCS '10] proved the same for constant-round protocols (with any non-trivial bias). For the general case, however, no such implication was known. We make progress towards answering the above fundamental question, showing that (strong) coin-flipping protocols safe against a constant bias (concretely, √2 -1/2 - o(1)) imply one-way functions.
AB - It is well known (cf., Impagliazzo and Luby [FOCS '89]) that the existence of almost all "interesting" cryptographic applications, i.e., ones that cannot hold information theoretically, implies one-way functions. An important exception where the above implication is not known, however, is the case of coin-flipping protocols. Such protocols allow honest parties to mutually flip an unbiased coin, while guaranteeing that even a cheating (efficient) party cannot bias the output of the protocol by much. Impagliazzo and Luby proved that coin-flipping protocols that are safe against negligible bias do imply one-way functions, and, very recently, Maji, Prabhakaran, and Sahai [FOCS '10] proved the same for constant-round protocols (with any non-trivial bias). For the general case, however, no such implication was known. We make progress towards answering the above fundamental question, showing that (strong) coin-flipping protocols safe against a constant bias (concretely, √2 -1/2 - o(1)) imply one-way functions.
KW - coin-flipping protocols
KW - one-way functions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84863305984&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/FOCS.2011.29
DO - 10.1109/FOCS.2011.29
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AN - SCOPUS:84863305984
SN - 9780769545714
T3 - Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS
SP - 110
EP - 119
BT - Proceedings - 2011 IEEE 52nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE 52nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS 2011
Y2 - 22 October 2011 through 25 October 2011
ER -