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In this paper, we study the information-theoretic limits of oblivious transfer via noisy channels. We also investigate oblivious transfer over a noisy multiple-access channel with two non-colluding senders and a single receiver. The channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hadi Aghaee , Bahareh Akhbari , Christian Deppe

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

In distributed differential privacy, multiple parties collaborate to analyze their combined data while each party protects the confidentiality of its data from the others. Interestingly, for certain fundamental two-party functions, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Iftach Haitner , Noam Mazor , Jad Silbak , Eliad Tsfadia , Chao Yan

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

Motivated by cloud security concerns, there is an increasing interest in database systems that can store and support queries over encrypted data. A common architecture for such systems is to use a trusted component such as a cryptographic…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Arvind Arasu , Raghav Kaushik

It is well known that unconditionally secure bit commitment is impossible even in the quantum world. In this paper a weak variant of quantum bit commitment, introduced independently by Aharonov et al. [STOC, 2000] and Hardy and Kent [Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andreas Jakoby , Maciej Liskiewicz , Aleksander Madry

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

Communication is a crucial ingredient in every kind of collaborative work. But what is the least possible amount of communication required for a given task? We formalize this question by introducing a new framework for distributed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Yehuda Afek , Yakov Babichenko , Uriel Feige , Eli Gafni , Nati Linial , Benny Sudakov

An oblivious computation is one that is free of direct and indirect information leaks, e.g., due to observable differences in timing and memory access patterns. This paper presents Lambda Obliv, a core language whose type system enforces…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-14 David Darais , Ian Sweet , Chang Liu , Michael Hicks

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

As in modern communication networks, the security of quantum networks will rely on complex cryptographic tasks that are based on a handful of fundamental primitives. Weak coin flipping (WCF) is a significant such primitive which allows two…

Central cryptographic functionalities such as encryption, authentication, or secure two-party computation cannot be realized in an information-theoretically secure way from scratch. This serves as a motivation to study what (possibly weak)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Severin Winkler , Juerg Wullschleger , Stefan Wolf

Information theoretically secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a central primitive of modern cryptography. However, relatively little is known about the communication complexity of this primitive. In this work, we develop powerful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-15 Deepesh Data , Vinod M. Prabhakaran , Manoj M. Prabhakaran

In the secure two-party computation problem, two parties wish to compute a (possibly randomized) function of their inputs via an interactive protocol, while ensuring that neither party learns more than what can be inferred from only their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Ye Wang , Prakash Ishwar , Shantanu Rane

Due to the impossibility results of Mayers and Lo/Chau it is generally thought that a quantum channel is cryptographically strictly weaker than oblivious transfer. In this paper we prove that in a three party scenario a quantum channel can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Mueller-Quade , H. Imai

Fundamental primitives such as bit commitment and oblivious transfer serve as building blocks for many other two-party protocols. Hence, the secure implementation of such primitives are important in modern cryptography. In this work, we…

Weak coin flipping is an important cryptographic primitive$\unicode{x2013}$it is the strongest known secure two-party computation primitive that classically becomes secure only under certain assumptions (e.g. computational hardness), while…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Atul Singh Arora , Jérémie Roland , Chrysoula Vlachou , Stephan Weis

This paper presents a new efficient protocol for k-out-of-n oblivious transfer which is a generalization of Parakh's 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer protocol based on Diffie-Hellman key exchange. In the proposed protocol, the parties involved…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-16 Ashwin Jain , C Hari

This thesis initiates the study of cryptographic protocols in the bounded-quantum-storage model. On the practical side, simple protocols for Rabin Oblivious Transfer, 1-2 Oblivious Transfer and Bit Commitment are presented. No quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-04 Christian Schaffner

We present a device independently secure quantum scheme for p-threshold all-or-nothing oblivious transfer. Novelty of the scheme is that, its security does not depend -- unlike the usual case -- on any quantum bit commitment protocol,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-17 Ramij Rahaman