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Simulatable Adaptive Oblivious Transfer

Authors:
Jan Camenisch
Gregory Neven
abhi shelat
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/014
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Abstract: We study an adaptive variant of oblivious transfer in which a sender has N messages, of which a receiver can adaptively choose to receive k one-after-the-other, in such a way that (a) the sender learns nothing about the receiver’s selections, and (b) the receiver only learns about the k requested messages. We propose two practical protocols for this primitive that achieve a stronger security notion than previous schemes with comparable efficiency. In particular, by requiring full simulatability for both sender and receiver security, our notion prohibits a subtle selective-failure attack not addressed by the security notions achieved by previous practical schemes. Our first protocol is a very efficient generic construction from unique blind signatures in the random oracle model. The second construction does not assume random oracles, but achieves remarkable efficiency with only a constant number of group elements sent during each transfer. This second construction uses novel techniques for building efficient simulatable protocols.
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@misc{eprint-2008-17691,
  title={Simulatable Adaptive Oblivious Transfer},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={cryptographic protocols /},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2008/014},
  note={An extended abstract of this paper appears in Moni Naor, editor, Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2007, volume 4515 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 573–590, Springer-Verlag, 2007. This is the full version. Gregory.Neven@esat.kuleuven.be 1388},
  author={Jan Camenisch and Gregory Neven and abhi shelat},
  year=2008
}