A Framework for Universally Composable Oblivious Transfer from One-Round Key-Exchange

Pedro Branco*, Jintai Ding, Manuel Goulão, Paulo Mateus

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Abstract

Oblivious transfer is one of the main pillars of modern cryptography and plays a major role as a building block for other more complex cryptographic primitives. In this work, we present an efficient and versatile framework for oblivious transfer (OT) using one-round key-exchange (ORKE), a special class of key exchange (KE) where only one message is sent from each party to the other. Our contributions can be summarized as follows:We analyze carefully ORKE schemes and introduce new security definitions. Namely, we introduce a new class of ORKE schemes, called Alice-Bob one-round key-exchange (A-B ORKE), and the definitions of message and key indistinguishability.We show that OT can be obtained from A-B ORKE schemes fulfilling message and key indistinguishability. We accomplish this by designing a new efficient, versatile and universally composable framework for OT in the Random Oracle Model (ROM). The efficiency of the framework presented depends almost exclusively on the efficiency of the A-B ORKE scheme used since all other operations are linear in the security parameter. Universally composable OT schemes in the ROM based on new hardness assumptions can be obtained from instantiating our framework. Examples are presented using the classical Diffie-Hellman KE, RLWE-based KE and Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman KE.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCryptography and Coding - 17th IMA International Conference, IMACC 2019, Proceedings
EditorsMartin Albrecht
PublisherSpringer
Pages78-101
Number of pages24
ISBN (Print)9783030351984
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event17th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2019 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: 16 Dec 201918 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11929 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding, IMACC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period16/12/1918/12/19

Keywords

  • Key exchange
  • Oblivious transfer
  • Universal Composability

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