[Resource Topic] 2020/235: Statistical Zaps and New Oblivious Transfer Protocols

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Title:
Statistical Zaps and New Oblivious Transfer Protocols

Authors: Vipul Goyal, Abhishek Jain, Zhengzhong Jin, Giulio Malavolta

Abstract:

We study the problem of achieving statistical privacy in interactive proof systems and oblivious transfer – two of the most well studied two-party protocols – when limited rounds of interaction are available. Statistical Zaps: We give the first construction of statistical Zaps, namely, two-round statistical witness-indistinguishable (WI) protocols with a public-coin verifier. Our construction achieves computational soundness based on the quasi-polynomial hardness of learning with errors. Three-Round Statistical Receiver-Private Oblivious Transfer: We give the first construction of a three-round oblivious transfer (OT) protocol – in the plain model – that achieves statistical privacy for receivers and computational privacy for senders against malicious adversaries, based on polynomial-time assumptions. The round-complexity of our protocol is optimal. We obtain our first result by devising a public-coin approach to compress sigma protocols, without relying on trusted setup. To obtain our second result, we devise a general framework via a new notion of statistical hash commitments that may be of independent interest.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/235

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6eCeaRoRBE

Slides: https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2020/eurocrypt/ec2020/441/slides.pdf

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