Robust t-out-of-n oblivious transfer mechanism based on CRT

  • Authors:
  • Chin-Chen Chang;Jung-San Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan 40724, ROC and Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chung Cheng U ...;Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan 40724, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Network and Computer Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Providing private communications for involved participants, the oblivious transfer (OT) mechanism is an important component in many cryptography applications such as e-commerce, secret exchange, coin flipping by telephone and sending certified e-mail. Recently, Mu et al. extended the OT concept to a t-out-of-n version (denoted as OT"t^n). They claim that the novel method allows the chooser to simultaneously obtain t messages from the sender in each protocol run. Wu et al.'s improvements make an OT mechanism more flexible and efficient. Unfortunately, we propose a strategy to demonstrate that their method is unable to provide the privacy of the sender in this article. Furthermore, we present a novel OT"t^n mechanism based on the concepts of blind signature and the Chinese remainder theorem. This novel mechanism achieves the essentials of general OT mechanisms.