Applications in Complexity Theory and Cryptography
Algorithms developed for list decoding of several interesting code families have found interesting applications in computational complexity and the field of cryptography. Following is a sample list of applications outside of coding theory:
- Construction of hard-core predicates from one-way permutations.
- Predicting witnesses for NP-search problems.
- Amplifying hardness of Boolean functions.
- Average case hardness of permanent of random matrices.
- Extractors and Pseudorandom generators.
- Efficient traitor tracing.
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