### David and Goliath Commitments: UC Computation for Asymmetric Parties Using Tamper-Proof Hardware

Tal Moran and Gil Segev

##### Abstract

Designing secure protocols in the Universal Composability (UC) framework confers many advantages. In particular, it allows the protocols to be securely used as building blocks in more complex protocols, and assists in understanding their security properties. Unfortunately, most existing models in which universally composable computation is possible (for useful functionalities) require a trusted setup stage. Recently, Katz [Eurocrypt '07] proposed an alternative to the trusted setup assumption: tamper-proof hardware. Instead of trusting a third party to correctly generate the setup information, each party can create its own hardware tokens, which it sends to the other parties. Each party is only required to trust that its own tokens are tamper-proof. Katz designed a UC commitment protocol that requires both parties to generate hardware tokens. In addition, his protocol relies on a specific number-theoretic assumption. In this paper, we construct UC commitment protocols for David'' and Goliath'': we only require a single party (Goliath) to be capable of generating tokens. We construct a version of the protocol that is secure for computationally unbounded parties, and a more efficient version that makes computational assumptions only about David (we require only the existence of a one-way function). Our protocols are simple enough to be performed by hand on David's side. These properties may allow such protocols to be used in situations which are inherently asymmetric in real-life, especially those involving individuals versus large organizations. Classic examples include voting protocols (voters versus the government'') and protocols involving private medical data (patients versus insurance-agencies or hospitals).

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Eurocrypt 2008; This is a longer version of the paper
Keywords
Universal ComposabilityTamper-Proof Hardware
Contact author(s)
tal moran @ weizmann ac il
History
2008-01-31: revised
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2008/046

CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2008/046,
author = {Tal Moran and Gil Segev},
title = {David and Goliath Commitments: UC Computation for Asymmetric Parties Using Tamper-Proof Hardware},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2008/046},
year = {2008},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/046}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/046}
}

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