More efficient oblivious transfer extensions with security for malicious adversaries

Gilad Asharov, Yehuda Lindell, Thomas Schneider, Michael Zohner

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Abstract

Oblivious transfer (OT) is one of the most fundamental primitives in cryptography and is widely used in protocols for secure two party and multi-party computation. As secure computation becomes more practical, the need for practical large scale oblivious transfer protocols is becoming more evident. Oblivious transfer extensions are protocols that enable a relatively small number of “base-OTs” to be utilized to compute a very large number of OTs at low cost. In the semi-honest setting, Ishai et al. (CRYPTO 2003) presented an OT extension protocol for which the cost of each OT (beyond the base-OTs) is just a few hash function operations. In the malicious setting, Nielsen et al. (CRYPTO 2012) presented an efficient OT extension protocol for the setting of active adversaries, that is secure in the random oracle model. In this work, we present an OT extension protocol for the setting of malicious adversaries that is more efficient and uses less communication than previous works. In addition, our protocol can be proven secure in both the random oracle model, and in the standard model with a type of correlation robustness. Given the importance of OT in many secure computation protocols, increasing the efficiency of OT extensions is another important step forward to making secure computation practical.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2015 - 34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Proceedings
EditorsMarc Fischlin, Elisabeth Oswald
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages673-701
Number of pages29
ISBN (Print)9783662467992
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt 2015 - Sofia, Bulgaria
Duration: 26 Apr 201530 Apr 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9056

Conference

Conference34th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Eurocrypt 2015
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CitySofia
Period26/04/1530/04/15

Keywords

  • Concrete efficiency
  • Oblivious transfer extensions
  • Secure computation

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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