A Simple Obfuscation Scheme for Pattern-Matching with Wildcards

@article{Bishop2018ASO,
  title={A Simple Obfuscation Scheme for Pattern-Matching with Wildcards},
  author={Allison Bishop and Lucas Kowalczyk and Tal Malkin and Valerio Pastro and Mariana Raykova and Kevin Shi},
  journal={IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  year={2018},
  volume={2018},
  pages={210}
}
We give a simple and efficient method for obfuscating pattern matching with wildcards. [] Key Method We rely upon the generic group heuristic (in a regular group, with no multilinearity). Previous work [9, 10, 32] provided less efficient constructions based on multilinear maps or LWE.
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