[Cryptography] PGP -- Can someone help me understand something?

[Benjamin Kreuter]

On Fri, 2018-08-10 at 18:18 -0400, Kent Borg wrote:
> On 08/10/2018 05:50 PM, Ray Dillinger wrote:
> > Anyway, all public-key cryptography is built on one-way functions
> > like 
> > this.
> 
> But resistance to plaintext attacks has nothing to do with public-
> key 
> cryptography one-way functions.

It sort of does, given that we can construct PKE with security against
chosen-plaintext attacks from any trapdoor one-way function (and the
proof of CPA security is a reduction to the hardness of the OWF).

-- Ben
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