The goals of this paper are two-fold. First we introduce and motivate a generalization of the fundamental concept of the indistinguishability of two systems, called indifferentiability. This… Expand
We give natural stronger definitions of secrecy capacity and secret-key rate, requiring that the adversary obtains virtually no information about the entire key.Expand
We show that verifiable secret sharing (VSS) and secure multi-party computation among a set of n players can efficiently be based on any linear secret sharing scheme (LSSS) for the players, provided that the access structure of the LSSS allows MPC or VSS at all.Expand
A global public-key infrastructure (PKI), components of which are emerging in the near future, is a prerequisite for security in distributed systems and for electronic commerce.Expand
This paper, provides a general treatment of privacy amplification by public discussion, a concept introduced by Bennett, Brassard, and Robert for a special scenario.Expand
The problem of generating a shared secret key S by two parties knowing dependent random variables X and Y, respectively, but not sharing a secret key initially, is considered.Expand
Shannon's pessimistic theorem, which states that a cipher can be perfect only when the entropy of the secret key is at least as great as that of the plaintext, is relativized by the demonstration of a randomized cipher in which the secretkey is short but the plain text can be very long.Expand
We propose a private-key cryptosystem and a protocol for key agreement by public discussion that are unconditionally secure based on the sole assumption that an adversary's memory capacity is limited.Expand
A new statistical test for random bit generators is presented which, in contrast to presently used statistical tests, is universal in the sense that it can detect any significant deviation of a device's output statistics from the statistics of a truly random bit source when the device can be modeled as an ergodic stationary source with finite memory but arbitrary transition probabilities.Expand