We present a candidate counterexample to the easy cylinders conjecture, which was recently suggested by Manindra Agrawal and Osamu Watanabe (see ECCC, TR09-019). Loosely speaking, the conjecture asserts that any 1-1 function in &Pmathcal;/poly can be decomposed into "cylinders" of sub-exponential size that can each be inverted by some polynomial-size circuit. Although all popular one-way functions have such easy (to invert) cylinders, we suggest a possible counterexample. Our suggestion builds on the candidate one-way function based on expander graphs (see ECCC, TR00-090), and essentially consists of iterating this function polynomially many times. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Goldreich, O. (2011). A candidate counterexample to the easy cylinders conjecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 6650 LNCS, 136–140. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22670-0_16
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