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On the power of two-local random reductions

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Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT '91 (ASIACRYPT 1991)

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We show that any language that has a two-locally-random reduction in which the target functions are boolean is in NP/poly∩co-NP/poly. This extends and simplifies a result by Yao.

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Hideki Imai Ronald L. Rivest Tsutomu Matsumoto

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Fortnow, L., Szegedy, M. (1993). On the power of two-local random reductions. In: Imai, H., Rivest, R.L., Matsumoto, T. (eds) Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT '91. ASIACRYPT 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 739. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57332-1_29

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