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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Shannon Impossibility, Revisited
verfasst von : Yevgeniy Dodis
Erschienen in: Information Theoretic Security
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In this note we revisit the famous result of Shannon [Sha49] stating that any encryption scheme with perfect security against computationally unbounded attackers must have a secret key as long as the message. This result motivated the introduction of modern encryption schemes, which are secure only against a computationally bounded attacker, and allow some small (negligible) advantage to such an attacker. It is a well known folklore that both such relaxations — limiting the power of the attacker and allowing for some small advantage — are necessary to overcome Shannon’s result. To our surprise, we could not find a clean and well documented proof of this folklore belief. (In fact, two proofs are required, each showing that only one of the two relaxations above is not sufficient.) Most proofs we saw either made some limiting assumptions (e.g., encryption is deterministic), or proved a much more complicated statement (e.g., beating Shannon’s bound implies the existence of one-way functions [IL89].)