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Reports tagged with chernoff bound:
TR09-078 | 16th September 2009
Falk Unger

A Probabilistic Inequality with Applications to Threshold Direct-product Theorems

We prove a simple concentration inequality, which is an extension of the Chernoff bound and Hoeffding's inequality for binary random variables. Instead of assuming independence of the variables we use a slightly weaker condition, namely bounds on the co-moments.

This inequality allows us to simplify and strengthen several known ... more >>>


TR09-120 | 18th November 2009
Charanjit Jutla

Almost Optimal Bounds for Direct Product Threshold Theorem

Revisions: 2

We consider weakly-verifiable puzzles which are challenge-response puzzles such that the responder may not
be able to verify for itself whether it answered the challenge correctly. We consider $k$-wise direct product of
such puzzles, where now the responder has to solve $k$ puzzles chosen independently in parallel.
Canetti et ... more >>>




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