This site utilises several optional online services that might collect information about you. By continuing visiting this site (whether or not you dismiss this dialog), you acknowledge that you accept our privacy notice.
It wasn’t until recently did I realise there are two isomorphic ways (different styles) of writing hybrid proofs. They actually correspond to the two equivalent definitions of computational indistinguishability — one based on guessing and the other based on distinguishing. Actually, I’ve been writing both kinds of proofs subconciously.
I learnt how to write uniform hybrid reductions in my rudimentary cryptography course, which are beasty beauties that wrap an adversary, trying break each of the many underlying cryptographic assumptions simultaneously. However, those constructions are less easy to write and read than using the transitivity of computational indistinguishability up to polynomially many times. The latter involves writing out the (perhaps polynomially many) hybrids and arguing that adjacent hybrids are indistinguishable. I also learnt non-uniform reductions, noticeably the technique to only work with deterministic adversaries. I’m writing a proof using hybrid argument lately, and I asked my advisor about whether I should write the beast or just the hybrids…
There are two asymptotically equivalent definitions of IND-CPA for secret-key encryption schemes. I think the one-challenge one makes the proof neater.
Kowalczyk 和 Wee 在 EUROCRYPT 2019（欧密会）上发表的文章 Compact Adaptively Secure ABE for NC¹ from 𝑘-Lin 可以说是彻底解决了 NC¹ 访问策略的属性加密问题。我在最近的密码学读书会上将讲述该文，这篇博文算是我用母语对该文章的总结（感觉我脑内思考语言仍然是汉语），也算是在中文密码学社区里传播知识。
![[KW19] 标准假设下适用于 NC¹ 策略的紧凑、适应性安全的属性加密](/entries/kw19-abe-nc1/assets/hero.png)
This just struck me. Of course, it has been carefully studied by computer scientists.
A brain teaser that remains open in Yao class WeChat group, up to the time of writing of this entry. See if it interests you and if you can solve it.
微博校园发了一个转得都“变质”的考试附加题照片——还有可能是 PS 的！那些字真的跟纹身刚刚纹上去的时候一样，底下还泛红。我把这个题做了一做，又苦于最近没什么新的博文主题，就暂且写一篇这个罢了。
操作系统课中讲安全的一节是代课老师上的，期间他推荐了 The Code Book (Simon Singh) 这本书，说是讲密码学历史的。我对密码学感兴趣，就读了一读，并照“不动笔墨不读书”的原则，记了读书笔记，发表出来以飨观众。
交叉信息研究院的本科生操作系统课程的大作业很奇特，并不是 4 个 NachOS 作业，而是两次 NachOS、两次分布式数据库。最后一次大作业是要写一个 Bitcoin 挖矿程序，而且还有组间比赛，各个小组的矿机和客户端会一起运行一段时间，最终获得最高手续费的矿机会获胜。
Continuing the last entry. I wrote a reducer of lambda terms (normal order, call-by-need).
I have heard about λ-calculus as a computational model for long, but never got a chance to have an even recreational look at it. Today’s entry simply records the creating of the parser.
Lagrange’s four-square theorem is a beautiful result in number theory. However, to the best of my knowledge, I haven’t encountered it often in theoretical computer science. Today’s entry discusses two interesting stories related to this theorem.
Starting from the classic puzzles of finding patterns in a sequence, this entry explores the framework to define persuasive patterns. The framework is found to be quite self-contained in the sense that it is ‘asymptotically invariant’ to the choice of ‘language of expression’. The only short-coming of this framework is that it works only for computable sequences, yet the process of pattern discovery is incomputable.
I allowed myself some CHANEL products to ‘reward’ myself for the acceptance of my first cryptography paper. I also consider spending money at its best value an interesting game. A commonly-seen discount aux Galeries Lafayette Xidan (Beijing) leads to an obviously NP-complete problem. Haha!
An algorithmic imagination of how Sina Weibo could implement Frequented Visitees, a feature that gives users the serveral accounts which they visit the most often.
在 Aarhus 的密码学研究从春天到秋天一直断断续续在进行。今日传来喜讯：我们的文章已被 PKC 2018 接收。
其实也不是洗澡的时候想的，是睡不着的时候想的。想完了，查一查文献，姚先生已经做了。
Let me explain the classic idea that ‘the algorithm of a crypto system should be considered and made public’ to you. Particularly, I will discuss what it means by ‘crypto system’, which tells us what information should be no secret at all.
A classic trick of backward references but painfully slow. And some comments on benchmarking JavaScript code.
I was participating Advanced Assessment for Admission (AAA) of Tsinghua Union, passed the first phase and was interviewed by Insititute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences of Tsinghua University. Here is a transcript of the interview.
我参加了“华约”（清华大学联盟）的自主招生（AAA，或“高水平大学自主选拔学业能力测试”）。我通过了初试并被清华大学交叉信息研究院面试。这是一份面试的转录。