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Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a major primitive for secure multiparty computation. Indeed, combined with symmetric primitives along with garbled circuits, it allows any secure function evaluation between two parties. In this paper, we propose…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Slim Bettaieb , Loïc Bidoux , Olivier Blazy , Baptiste Cottier , David Pointcheval

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

Oblivious transfer protocols (R-OT and OT$_{1}^{2}$) are presented based on non-orthogonal states transmission, and the bit commitment protocols on the top of OT$_{1}^{2}$ are constructed. Although these OT protocols are all unconditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Li Yang

Quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) is an essential cryptographic primitive. But unconditionally secure QOT is known to be impossible. Here we propose a practical QOT protocol, which is perfectly secure against dishonest sender without relying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-02 Guang Ping He

This study proposes a simple and efficient one-out-of-two quantum oblivious transfer (QOT) protocol based on nonorthogonal states. The nonorthogonal property grants quantum bit immunity to some operations in order to achieve the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 Yao-Hsin Chou , Guo-Jyun Zeng , Yu-Shan Yang , Zhe-Hua Chang

We present simple protocols for oblivious transfer and password-based identification which are secure against general attacks in the noisy-quantum-storage model as defined in [KWW09]. We argue that a technical tool from [KWW09] suffices to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Christian Schaffner

We present a new template for building oblivious transfer from quantum information that we call the "fixed basis" framework. Our framework departs from prior work (eg., Crepeau and Kilian, FOCS '88) by fixing the correct choice of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-13 Amit Agarwal , James Bartusek , Dakshita Khurana , Nishant Kumar

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

Secure multiparty computation enables collaborative computations across multiple users while preserving individual privacy, which has a wide range of applications in finance, machine learning and healthcare. Secure multiparty computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kai-Yi Zhang , An-Jing Huang , Kun Tu , Ming-Han Li , Chi Zhang , Wei Qi , Ya-Dong Wu , Yu Yu

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 present a framework for fully-simulatable $h$-out-of-$n$ oblivious transfer ($OT^{n}_{h}$) with security against non-adaptive malicious adversaries. The framework costs six communication rounds and costs at most $40n$ public-key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-04-04 Bing Zeng , Xueming Tang , Chingfang Hsu

As database deployments shift toward cloud platforms and edge devices, thin clients need to securely retrieve sensitive records without leaking their query intent or metadata to the proxies that mediate access. Oblivious Transfer (OT) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Aydin Abadi , Yvo Desmedt

Commitment schemes are essential to many cryptographic protocols and schemes with applications that include privacy-preserving computation on data, privacy-preserving authentication, and, in particular, oblivious transfer protocols. For…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Thomas Lorünser , Sebastian Ramacher , Federico Valbusa

Oblivious transfer protocol is a basic building block in cryptography and is used to transfer information from a sender to a receiver in such a way that, at the end of the protocol, the sender does not know if the receiver got the message…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. Souto , P. Mateus , P. Adão , N. Paunković

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

Quantum cryptography is the field of cryptography that explores the quantum properties of matter. Its aim is to develop primitives beyond the reach of classical cryptography or to improve on existing classical implementations. Although much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Manuel B. Santos , Paulo Mateus , Armando N. Pinto

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

In the m-out-of-n oblivious transfer (OT) model, one party Alice sends n bits to another party Bob, Bob can get only m bits from the n bits. However, Alice cannot know which m bits Bob received. Y.Mu[MJV02]} and Naor[Naor01] presented…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Zhide Chen , Hong Zhu

One-time programs (Goldwasser, Kalai and Rothblum, CRYPTO 2008) are functions that can be run on any single input of a user's choice, but not on a second input. Classically, they are unachievable without trusted hardware, but the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Aparna Gupte , Jiahui Liu , Justin Raizes , Bhaskar Roberts , Vinod Vaikuntanathan

We present the first protocol for oblivious transfer that can be implemented with an optical continuous-variable system, and prove its security in the noisy-storage model. This model allows security to be achieved by sending more quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Fabian Furrer , Christian Schaffner , Stephanie Wehner