Paper 2023/1002
Oblivious Transfer from Rerandomizable PKE
Abstract
The relationship between oblivious transfer (OT) and public-key encryption (PKE) has been studied by Gertner et al. (FOCS 2000). They showed that OT can be constructed from special types of PKE, i.e., PKE with oblivious sampleability of public keys or ciphertexts. In this work, we give new black-box constructions of OT from PKE without any oblivious sampleability. Instead, we require that the PKE scheme is rerandomizable, meaning that one can use the public key to rerandomize a ciphertext into a fresh ciphertext. We give two different OT protocols with different efficiency features based on rerandomizable PKE. For $1$-out-of-$n$ OT, in our first OT protocol, the sender has sublinear (in $n$) cost, and in our second OT protocol, the cost of the receiver is independent of $n$. As a comparison, in the PKE-based OT protocols of Gertner et al., both the sender and receiver have linear cost.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. ICICS 2023
- Keywords
- Oblivious TransferPublic-Key EncryptionRerandomizable
- Contact author(s)
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lishuaishuai @ iie ac cn
zhangcong @ iie ac cn
ddlin @ iie ac cn - History
- 2023-06-29: approved
- 2023-06-27: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2023/1002
- License
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CC0
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1002,
author = {Shuaishuai Li and Cong Zhang and Dongdai Lin},
title = {Oblivious Transfer from Rerandomizable {PKE}},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1002},
year = {2023},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1002}
}
