Paradigms for unconditional pseudorandom generators

P Hatami, W Hoza - Foundations and Trends® in Theoretical …, 2024 - nowpublishers.com
This is a survey of unconditional pseudorandom generators (PRGs). A PRG uses a short,
truly random seed to generate a long," pseudorandom" sequence of bits. To be more …

Locally decodable/correctable codes for insertions and deletions

AR Block, J Blocki, E Grigorescu, S Kulkarni… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Recent efforts in coding theory have focused on building codes for insertions and deletions,
called insdel codes, with optimal trade-offs between their redundancy and their error …

Exponential lower bounds for locally decodable and correctable codes for insertions and deletions

J Blocki, K Cheng, E Grigorescu, X Li… - 2021 IEEE 62nd …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes for which individual message
symbols can be quickly recovered despite errors in the codeword. LDCs for Hamming errors …

Private and resource-bounded locally decodable codes for insertions and deletions

AR Block, J Blocki - 2021 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We construct locally decodable codes (LDCs) to correct insertion-deletion errors in the
setting where the sender and receiver share a secret key or where the channel is resource …

Explicit Orthogonal Arrays and Universal Hashing with Arbitrary Parameters

N Harvey, A Sahami - Proceedings of the 56th Annual ACM Symposium …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Orthogonal arrays are a type of combinatorial design that emerged in the 1940s in the
design of statistical experiments. In 1947, Rao proved a lower bound on the size of any …

On Relaxed Locally Decodable Codes for Hamming and Insertion-Deletion Errors

A Block, J Blocki, K Cheng, E Grigorescu, X Li… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
Locally Decodable Codes (LDCs) are error-correcting codes $ C:\Sigma^
n\rightarrow\Sigma^ m $ with super-fast decoding algorithms. They are important …

An improved sketching algorithm for edit distance

C Jin, J Nelson, K Wu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.13170, 2020 - arxiv.org
We provide improved upper bounds for the simultaneous sketching complexity of edit
distance. Consider two parties, Alice with input $ x\in\Sigma^ n $ and Bob with input …

Computationally relaxed locally decodable codes, revisited

AR Block, J Blocki - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We revisit computationally relaxed locally decodable codes (crLDCs)(Blocki et al., Trans. Inf.
Theory'21) and give two new constructions. Our first construction is a Hamming crLDC that is …

Memory-hard puzzles in the standard model with applications to memory-hard functions and resource-bounded locally decodable codes

MH Ameri, AR Block, J Blocki - … on Security and Cryptography for Networks, 2022 - Springer
We formally introduce, define, and construct memory-hard puzzles. Intuitively, for a difficulty
parameter t, a cryptographic puzzle is memory-hard if any parallel random access machine …

Exploring the Composition of Coding Theory and Cryptography Through Secure Computation, Succinct Arguments, and Local Codes

AR Block - 2022 - search.proquest.com
We examine new ways in which coding theory and cryptography continue to be composed
together, and show that the composition of these two fields yield new constructions in the …