Rabi, Rivest, and Sherman alter the standard notion of noninvertibility to a new notion they call strong noninvertibility, and show-via explicit cryptographic protocols for secret-key agreement ([RS93,RS97] attribute this to Rivest and Sherman) and digital signatures [RS93,RS97]-that strongly noninvertible functions would be very useful components in protocol design. Their definition of strong noninvertibility has a small twist (“respecting the argument given”) that is needed to ensure cryptographic usefulness. In this paper, we show that this small twist has a large, unexpected consequence: Unless P = NP, some strongly noninvertible functions are invertible.
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Hemaspaandra, L. A., Pasanen, K., & Rothe, J. (2001). If P ≠ NP then some strongly noninvertible functions are invertible. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 2138, pp. 162–171). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44669-9_17
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