Fast contract signing with batch oblivious transfer

  • Authors:
  • L'ubica Staneková;Martin Stanek

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia;Department of Computer Science, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

  • Venue:
  • CMS'05 Proceedings of the 9th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 international conference on Communications and Multimedia Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Oblivious transfer protocol is a basic building block of various cryptographic constructions. We propose a novel protocol – batch oblivious transfer. It allows efficient computation of multiple instances of oblivious transfer protocols. We apply this protocol to improve the fast simultaneous contract signing protocol, recently proposed in [11], which gains its speed from computation of time-consuming operations in advance. Using batch oblivious transfer, a better efficiency can be achieved.