Randomized Encodings

Replacing a function by a simpler randomized function that reveals its output and nothing more, and the degree or locality that simpler function can have.

Status	Statement	Tags
	AVPs Are Lengthy Posed as Hypothesis 1.2 and offered both as a working hypothesis and as an ambitious target. Theorem 1.3 proves it implies super-polynomial lower bounds on sd-PIR, general secret sharing and fully-decomposable randomized encodings – for none of which a super-linear lower bound is currently known. The source adapts counting-based arguments to the model but does not reach the best-known bound for any primitive. 4 open	Garbled Circuits Private Information Retrieval Proof Size Lower Bounds Randomized Encodingslower-boundbarrier (ai)
	Degree-2 Statistical RE Question 1.6 of the harvested paper, attributed there to Ishai-Kushilevitz and Applebaum-Ishai-Kushilevitz and described as open for almost 20 years. Degree-3 statistical encodings exist for every finite function; negative results are known for perfectly private degree 2. The harvested paper adds a new consequence, its Proposition 1.7. 4 open	Arithmetic Cryptography Non Interactive Secure Computation Randomized Encodingscharacterizationbarrier (ai)
	Statistical Robust ARE The source asks whether all functions admit a statistically secure ARE, robust or non-robust, and strongly conjectures the answer is negative. The non-robust half was refuted: Bitansky, Erabelli, Garg and Ishai construct statistical AREs for all finite functions. The robust half is open, and is re-posed by that later work. 4 open	Additive Randomized Encodings Randomized Encodingscharacterization