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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2026.5

Weak Zero-Knowledge and One-Way Functions

Authors: Rohit Chatterjee, Yunqi Li, and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 385, 7th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2026)

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We study the implications of the existence of weak Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocols for worst-case hard languages. These are protocols that have completeness, soundness, and zero-knowledge errors (denoted ε_c, ε_s, and ε_z, respectively) that might not be negligible. Under the assumption that there are worst-case hard languages in NP, we show the following: 1) If all languages in NP have NIZK proofs or arguments satisfying ε_c+ε_s+ε_z < 1, then One-Way Functions (OWFs) exist. This covers all possible non-trivial values for these error rates. It additionally implies that if all languages in NP have such NIZK proofs and ε_c is negligible, then they also have NIZK proofs where all errors are negligible. Previously, these results were known under the more restrictive condition ε_c+√{ε_s}+ε_z < 1 [Chakraborty et al., CRYPTO 2025]. 2) If all languages in NP have k-round public-coin ZK proofs or arguments satisfying ε_c+ε_s+(2k-1)⋅ε_z < 1, then OWFs exist. 3) If, for some constant k, all languages in NP have k-round public-coin ZK proofs or arguments satisfying ε_c+ε_s+k⋅ε_z < 1, then infinitely-often OWFs exist.

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Rohit Chatterjee, Yunqi Li, and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan. Weak Zero-Knowledge and One-Way Functions. In 7th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 385, pp. 5:1-5:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{chatterjee_et_al:LIPIcs.ITC.2026.5,
  author =	{Chatterjee, Rohit and Li, Yunqi and Vasudevan, Prashant Nalini},
  title =	{{Weak Zero-Knowledge and One-Way Functions}},
  booktitle =	{7th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2026)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-426-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{385},
  editor =	{Dodis, Yevgeniy},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2026.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-270987},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2026.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: One-way functions, zero-knowledge}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.23

Decoding Balanced Linear Codes with Preprocessing

Authors: Andrej Bogdanov, Rohit Chatterjee, Yunqi Li, and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)

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Prange’s information set algorithm is a well-known decoding algorithm for linear codes. It decodes corrupted codewords of most 𝔽₂-linear codes C of message length n up to relative error rate O(log n / n) in poly(n) time. We show that the error rate can be improved to O((log n)² / n), provided: (1) the decoder has access to a polynomial-length advice string that depends on C only, and (2) C is n^{-Ω(1)}-balanced. As a consequence we improve the error tolerance in decoding random linear codes if inefficient preprocessing of the code is allowed. This reveals potential vulnerabilities in cryptographic applications of Learning Noisy Parities with low noise rate. Our main technical result is that the Hamming weight of Hw, where the rows of H are a random sample of short dual codewords, measures the proximity of a received word w to the code in the regime of interest. Given such H as advice, our algorithm corrects errors by locally minimizing this measure. We show that for most codes, the error rate tolerated by our decoder is asymptotically optimal among all algorithms whose decision is based on thresholding Hw for an arbitrary polynomial-size advice matrix H.

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Andrej Bogdanov, Rohit Chatterjee, Yunqi Li, and Prashant Nalini Vasudevan. Decoding Balanced Linear Codes with Preprocessing. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 23:1-23:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)

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@InProceedings{bogdanov_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.23,
  author =	{Bogdanov, Andrej and Chatterjee, Rohit and Li, Yunqi and Vasudevan, Prashant Nalini},
  title =	{{Decoding Balanced Linear Codes with Preprocessing}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253107},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Linear codes, nearest codeword problem, learning parity with noise}
}

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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games

DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.28

Improved Black-Box Constructions of Composable Secure Computation

Authors: Rohit Chatterjee, Xiao Liang, and Omkant Pandey

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 168, 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)

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We close the gap between black-box and non-black-box constructions of composable secure multiparty computation in the plain model under the minimal assumption of semi-honest oblivious transfer. The notion of protocol composition we target is angel-based security, or more precisely, security with super-polynomial helpers. In this notion, both the simulator and the adversary are given access to an oracle called an angel that can perform some predefined super-polynomial time task. Angel-based security maintains the attractive properties of the universal composition framework while providing meaningful security guarantees in complex environments without having to trust anyone. Angel-based security can be achieved using non-black-box constructions in max(R_OT,Õ(log n)) rounds where R_OT is the round-complexity of semi-honest oblivious transfer. However, current best known black-box constructions under the same assumption require max(R_OT,Õ(log² n)) rounds. If R_OT is a constant, the gap between non-black-box and black-box constructions can be a multiplicative factor log n. We close this gap by presenting a max(R_OT,Õ(log n)) round black-box construction. We achieve this result by constructing constant-round 1-1 CCA-secure commitments assuming only black-box access to one-way functions.

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Rohit Chatterjee, Xiao Liang, and Omkant Pandey. Improved Black-Box Constructions of Composable Secure Computation. In 47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 168, pp. 28:1-28:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020)

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@InProceedings{chatterjee_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.28,
  author =	{Chatterjee, Rohit and Liang, Xiao and Pandey, Omkant},
  title =	{{Improved Black-Box Constructions of Composable Secure Computation}},
  booktitle =	{47th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2020)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-138-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2020},
  volume =	{168},
  editor =	{Czumaj, Artur and Dawar, Anuj and Merelli, Emanuela},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-124351},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2020.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Secure Multi-Party Computation, Black-Box, Composable, Non-Malleable}
}

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