[Resource Topic] 2018/444: Founding Cryptography on Smooth Projective Hashing

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Title:
Founding Cryptography on Smooth Projective Hashing

Authors: Bing Zeng

Abstract:

Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental primitive in cryptography. Halevi-Kalai OT (Halevi, S. and Y. Kalai (2012), Journal of Cryptology 25(1)), which is based on smooth projective hash(SPH), is a famous and the most efficient framework for 1-out-of-2 oblivious transfer (\mbox{OT}^{2}_{1}) against malicious adversaries in plain model. However, it does not provide simulation-based security. Thus, it is harder to use it as a building block in secure multiparty computation (SMPC) protocols. A natural question however, which so far has not been answered, is whether it can be can be made fully-simulatable. In this paper, we give a positive answer. Further, we present a fully-simulatable framework for general \mbox{OT}^{n}_{t} (n,t\in \mathbb{N} and n>t). Our framework can be interpreted as a constant-round blackbox reduction of \mbox{OT}^{n}_{t} (or \mbox{OT}^{2}_{1}) to SPH. To our knowledge, this is the first such reduction. Combining Kilian’s famous completeness result, we immediately obtain a black-box reduction of SMPC to SPH.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/444

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