Paper 2007/133 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2007/133 ↗

New Communication-Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols Based on Pairings

Helger Lipmaa
Abstract

We construct two simple families of two-message $(n,1)$-oblivious transfer protocols based on degree-$t$ homomorphic cryptosystems with the communication of respectively $1+\lceil n/t \rceil$ and $3+\lceil n/(t+1) \rceil$ ciphertexts. The construction of both families relies on efficient cryptocomputable conditional disclosure of secret protocols; the way this is done may be of independent interest. The currently most interesting case $t=2$ can be based on the Boneh-Goh-Nissim cryptosystem. As an important application, we show how to reduce the communication of virtually any existing oblivious transfer protocols by proposing a new related communication-efficient generic transformation from computationally-private information retrieval protocols to oblivious transfer protocols.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2008-06-19: last updated
2007-04-18: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2007/133
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2007/133,
      author = {Helger Lipmaa},
      title = {New Communication-Efficient Oblivious Transfer Protocols Based on Pairings},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2007/133},
      year = {2007},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2007/133}
}
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