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It was shown in [WST08] that cryptographic primitives can be implemented based on the assumption that quantum storage of qubits is noisy. In this work we analyze a protocol for the universal task of oblivious transfer that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-09 Christian Schaffner , Barbara Terhal , Stephanie Wehner

We present a new simulation-secure quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocol based on one-way functions in the plain model. With a focus on practical implementation, our protocol surpasses prior works in efficiency, promising feasible…

Oblivious transfer is a fundamental primitive in cryptography. While perfect information theoretic security is impossible, quantum oblivious transfer protocols can limit the dishonest players' cheating. Finding the optimal security…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-24 André Chailloux , Iordanis Kerenidis , Jamie Sikora

Motivated by the applications of secure multiparty computation as a privacy-protecting data analysis tool, and identifying oblivious transfer as one of its main practical enablers, we propose a practical realization of randomized quantum…

We propose an information theoretic framework for the secure two-party function computation (SFC) problem and introduce the notion of SFC capacity. We study and extend string oblivious transfer (OT) to sample-wise OT. We propose an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-02-06 Ye Wang , Prakash Ishwar

Interest in anonymous communication over distributed hash tables (DHTs) has increased in recent years. However, almost all known solutions solely aim at achieving sender or requestor anonymity in DHT queries. In many application scenarios,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Michael Backes , Ian Goldberg , Aniket Kate , Tomas Toft

Cryptography's importance in our everyday lives continues to grow in our increasingly digital world. Oblivious transfer (OT) has long been a fundamental and important cryptographic primitive since it is known that general two-party…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-20 C. Erven , Nelly Huei Ying Ng , N. Gigov , R. Laflamme , S. Wehner , G. Weihs

A major algorithmic challenge in designing applications intended for secure remote execution is ensuring that they are oblivious to their inputs, in the sense that their memory access patterns do not leak sensitive information to the…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Simeon Krastnikov , Florian Kerschbaum , Douglas Stebila

Oblivious inference is the task of outsourcing a ML model, like neural-networks, without disclosing critical and sensitive information, like the model's parameters. One of the most prominent solutions for secure oblivious inference is based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Panagiotis Rizomiliotis , Christos Diou , Aikaterini Triakosia , Ilias Kyrannas , Konstantinos Tserpes

Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a well-researched primitive to hide the memory access pattern of a RAM computation; it has a variety of applications in trusted computing, outsourced storage, and multiparty computation. In this paper, we study the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Thore Thießen , Jan Vahrenhold

We provide a generic construction to turn any classical Zero-Knowledge (ZK) protocol into a composable (quantum) oblivious transfer (OT) protocol, mostly lifting the round-complexity properties and security guarantees…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Léo Colisson , Garazi Muguruza , Florian Speelman

Oblivious Transfer (OT) is one of the most fundamental cryptographic primitives with wide-spread application in general secure multi-party computation (MPC) as well as in a number of tailored and special-purpose problems of interest such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Arpita Patra , Pratik Sarkar , Ajith Suresh

A central tenet of theoretical cryptography is the study of the minimal assumptions required to implement a given cryptographic primitive. One such primitive is the one-time memory (OTM), introduced by Goldwasser, Kalai, and Rothblum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-14 Anne Broadbent , Sevag Gharibian , Hong-Sheng Zhou

Although random sequences can be used to generate probability events, they come with the risk of cheating in an unsupervised situation. In such cases, the oblivious transfer protocol may be used and this paper presents a variation to the DH…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-03 Subhash Kak

In this paper, we describe an attack against one of the Oblivious-Transfer-based blind signatures scheme, proposed in [1]. An attacker with a primitive capability of producing specific-range random numbers, while exhibiting a partial MITM…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-11-10 Stylianos Basagiannis , Panagiotis Katsaros , Andrew Pombortsis

The bounded storage model restricts the memory of an adversary in a cryptographic protocol, rather than restricting its computational power, making information theoretically secure protocols feasible. We present the first protocols for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Rafael Dowsley , Felipe Lacerda , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

We show that stand-alone statistically secure random oblivious transfer protocols based on two-party stateless primitives are statistically universally composable. I.e. they are simulatable secure with an unlimited adversary, an unlimited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Rafael Dowsley , Jörn Müller-Quade , Anderson C. A. Nascimento

Oblivious Transfer, a fundamental problem in the field of secure multi-party computation is defined as follows: A database DB of N bits held by Bob is queried by a user Alice who is interested in the bit DB_b in such a way that (1) Alice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. V. Panduranga Rao , M. Jakobi

We present a device-independent protocol for oblivious transfer (DIOT) and analyze its security under the assumption that the receiver's quantum storage is bounded during protocol execution and that the device behaves independently and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Anne Broadbent , Peter Yuen

Noisy channels are a powerful resource for cryptography as they can be used to obtain information-theoretically secure key agreement, commitment and oblivious transfer protocols, among others. Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-10-13 Rafael Dowsley , Anderson C. A. Nascimento