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Title:
Private Branching Programs: On Communication-Efficient Cryptocomputing
Authors: Helger Lipmaa
Abstract:We polish a recent cryptocomputing method of Ishai and Paskin from TCC 2007. More precisely, we show that every function can be cryptocomputed in communication, linear in the product of client’s input length and the length of the branching program, and computation, linear in the size of the branching program that computes it. The method is based on the existence of a communication-efficient (2,1)-CPIR protocol. We give several nontrivial applications, including: (a) improvement on the communication of Lipmaa’s CPIR protocol, (b) a CPIR protocol with log-squared communication and sublinear server-computation by giving a secure function evaluation protocol for Boolean functions with similar performance, (c) a protocol for PIR-writing with low amortized complexity, (d) a selective private function evaluation (SPFE) protocol. We detail one application of SPFE that makes it possible to compute how similar is client’s input to an element in server’s database, without revealing any information to the server. For SPFE, we design a 4-message extension of the basic protocol that is efficient for a large class of functionalities.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2008/107
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