The Simplest Protocol for Oblivious Transfer

Tung Chou; Claudio Orlandi

Paper 2015/267

The Simplest Protocol for Oblivious Transfer

Tung Chou and Claudio Orlandi

Abstract

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is one of the fundamental building blocks of cryptographic protocols. In this paper we describe the simplest and most efficient protocol for -out-of- OT to date, which is obtained by tweaking the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol. The protocol allows to perform -out-of- OTs using only full exponentiations ( for the receiver, for the sender) and, sending only group elements and ciphertexts. We also report on an implementation of the protocol using elliptic curves, and on a number of mechanisms we employ to ensure that our software is secure against active attacks too. Experimental results show that our protocol (thanks to both algorithmic and implementation optimizations) is at least one order of magnitude faster than previous work.

Note: Improved notation and extension to 1-out-of-m OT.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Cryptographic protocols
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Minor revision. LATINCRYPT 2015
Keywords: Oblivious Transfer UC Security Elliptic Curves Efficient Implementation
Contact author(s): blueprint @ crypto tw
History: 2018-05-29: last of 4 revisions; 2015-03-23: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2015/267
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/267,
      author = {Tung Chou and Claudio Orlandi},
      title = {The Simplest Protocol for Oblivious Transfer},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/267},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/267}
}