Salil Vadhan

  1. On Extractors and Exposure-Resilient Functions for Sublogarithmic Entropy.

    Authors: Yakir Reshef, Salil Vadhan
    Subjects: Computational Complexity
    Abstract

    We study deterministic extractors for bit-fixing sources (a.k.a. resilient
    functions) and exposure-resilient functions for small min-entropy. That is, of
    the n bits given as input to the function, k << n bits are uniformly random and
    unknown to the adversary. We show that a random function is a resilient
    function with high probability if and only if k is at least roughly log n. In
    contrast, we show that a random function is a static (resp. adaptive)
    exposure-resilient function with high probability even if k is as small as a
    constant (resp. log(log n)).

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