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By Oded Goldreich, Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali.

Primary source: people.csail.mit.edu/silvio/Selected%20Scientific%20Papers/Pseudo%20Randomness/How%20To%20Construct%20Random%20Functions.pdf

Function ensembles and oracle indistinguishability definition.

Oded Goldreich coauthored the pseudorandom function family construction with Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali. The construction uses a pseudorandom generator to expand a seed into two child seeds; successive input bits choose left or right children. Only the selected path is evaluated, so a short input can be processed without generating the whole tree.^[ref]

The result connects compact computation with a much larger implicit table of values. Security requires that efficient adaptive observers cannot distinguish this keyed table from a randomly chosen function, under the paper's computational assumptions.

Silvio Micali coauthored the construction of pseudorandom function families with Oded Goldreich and Shafi Goldwasser. Their 1986 paper extends pseudorandomness from a generated binary string to a function that can be evaluated repeatedly at chosen inputs.^[ref]

A short key specifies an efficiently evaluated function even though its full truth table can be exponentially large. The comparison experiment is a single randomly chosen function, so repeated queries must receive consistent answers. That consistency distinguishes function security from supplying fresh independent random bits on every call.