CryptoDB
Steve Lu
Publications
Year
Venue
Title
2022
EUROCRYPT
Garbled Circuits With Sublinear Evaluator
Abstract
A recent line of work, Stacked Garbled Circuit (SGC), showed that Garbled Circuit (GC) can be improved for functions that include conditional behavior. SGC relieves the communication bottleneck of 2PC by only sending enough garbled material for a single branch out of the $b$ total branches. Hence, communication is sublinear in the circuit size.
However, both the evaluator and the generator pay in computation and perform at least factor $\log b$ extra work as compared to standard GC evaluation.
We extend the sublinearity of SGC to also include the work performed by the GC Evaluator E; thus we achieve a fully sublinear E, which is essential when optimizing for the online phase.
We formalize our approach as a garbling scheme called GCWise: GC WIth Sublinear Evaluator.
We show one attractive and immediate application, Garbled PIR, a primitive that marries GC with Private Information Retrieval. Garbled PIR allows the GC to non-interactively and sublinearly access a privately indexed element from a publicly known database, and then use this element in continued GC evaluation.
Coauthors
- Craig Gentry (1)
- Jens Groth (2)
- Shai Halevi (1)
- Abida Haque (1)
- David Heath (1)
- Brett Hemenway (1)
- Vladimir Kolesnikov (1)
- Rafail Ostrovsky (7)
- Mariana Raykova (1)
- Amit Sahai (1)
- Hovav Shacham (1)
- Mehul A. Shah (1)
- Brent Waters (1)
- Daniel Wichs (1)