t-out-of-n string/bit oblivious transfers revisited

  • Authors:
  • Qianhong Wu;Bo Qin;Changjie Wang;Xiaofeng Chen;Yumin Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian Univ., Xi'an City, P.R. China;State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian Univ., Xi'an City, P.R. China;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong;School of Information Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen Univ., Guangzhou, P. R. China;State Key Lab. of ISN, Xidian Univ., Xi'an City, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • ISPEC'05 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information Security Practice and Experience
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper, we focus on lowering the complexity of t-out-of-n string/bit OTs for large t. The notion of oblivious public-key cryptosystem (OPKC) is introduced, in which Bob possesses n public keys but only t private keys and no one knows which t private keys Bob possesses. If the sender, say, Alice, encrypts each message using the n oblivious public keys, resp., the receiver, Bob, can obtain only t messages by t decryptions with his known t private keys. This approach can be directly applied to t-out-of-n bit OT. However, it is very inefficient due to heavy message expansion and many encryption/decryption operations. To construct t-out-of-n bit OT, we introduce bit oblivious public-key cryptosystem (BOPKC), which is a special public-key cryptosystem with a message space of n bits, and the private key only enables its owner to decrypt t bits of n secret bits. After an offline generation of such a BOPKC, it requires only one encryption, one decryption and one ciphertext. Finally, we show the concrete implementations of OPKC/BOPKC based on ElGamal/Paillier cryptosystem, and efficient t-out-of-n string/bit OTs are achieved.