Paper 2016/969 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2016/969 ↗

Garbling Gadgets for Boolean and Arithmetic Circuits

Marshall Ball
Tal Malkin
Mike Rosulek
Abstract

We present simple, practical, and powerful new techniques for garbled circuits. These techniques result in significant concrete and asymptotic improvements over the state of the art, for several natural kinds of computations. For arithmetic circuits over the integers, our construction results in garbled circuits with {\em free} addition, weighted threshold gates with cost independent of fan-in, and exponentiation by a fixed exponent with cost independent of the exponent. For boolean circuits, our construction gives an {\em exponential} improvement over the state of the art for threshold gates (including AND/OR gates) of high fan-in. Our construction can be efficiently instantiated with practical symmetric-key primitives (e.g., AES), and is proven secure under similar assumptions to that of the Free-XOR garbling scheme (Kolesnikov \& Schneider, ICALP 2008). We give an extensive comparison between our scheme and state-of-the-art garbling schemes applied to boolean circuits.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2016-10-10: last updated
2016-10-10: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/969
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/969,
      author = {Marshall Ball and Tal Malkin and Mike Rosulek},
      title = {Garbling Gadgets for Boolean and Arithmetic Circuits},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2016/969},
      year = {2016},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/969}
}
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