Injective one-way trapdoor functions are one of the most fundamental cryptographic primitives. In this work we show how to derandomize lossy encryption (with long messages) to obtain lossy trapdoor functions, and hence injective one-way trapdoor functions. Bellare, Halevi, Sahai and Vadhan (CRYPTO ’98) showed that if Enc is an IND-CPA secure cryptosystem, and H is a random oracle, then x 7→ Enc...

The pure-injective R-modules are defined easily enough: as those modules which are injective over all pure embeddings, where an embedding A → B is said to be pure if every finite system of R-linear equations with constants from A and a solution in B has a solution in A. But the definition itself gives no indication of the rich theory around purity and pure-injectivity. The purpose of this surve...

Semigroups S for which the Banach algebra ℓ 1 (S) is injective are investigated and an application to the work of O. Yu. Aristov is described.