Improved Garbled Circuit Building Blocks and Applications to Auctions and Computing Minima

  • Authors:
  • Vladimir Kolesnikov;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi;Thomas Schneider

  • Affiliations:
  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA NJ 07974;Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany;Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CANS '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cryptology and Network Security
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider generic Garbled Circuit (GC)-based techniques for Secure Function Evaluation (SFE) in the semi-honest model. We describe efficient GC constructions for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and comparison functions. Our circuits for subtraction and comparison are approximately two times smaller (in terms of garbled tables) than previous constructions. This implies corresponding computation and communication improvements in SFE of functions using our efficient building blocks. The techniques rely on recently proposed "free XOR" GC technique. Further, we present concrete and detailed improved GC protocols for the problem of secure integer comparison, and related problems of auctions, minimum selection, and minimal distance. Performance improvement comes both from building on our efficient basic blocks and several problem-specific GC optimizations. We provide precise cost evaluation of our constructions, which serves as a baseline for future protocols.