[Resource Topic] 2021/375: Round and Communication Balanced Protocols for Oblivious Evaluation of Finite State Machines

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Title:
Round and Communication Balanced Protocols for Oblivious Evaluation of Finite State Machines

Authors: Rafael Dowsley, Caleb Horst, Anderson C A Nascimento

Abstract:

We propose protocols for obliviously evaluating finite-state machines, i.e., the evaluation is shared between the provider of the finite-state machine and the provider of the input string in such a manner that neither party learns the other’s input, and the states being visited are hidden from both. For alphabet size |\Sigma|, number of states |Q|, and input length n, previous solutions have either required a number of rounds linear in n or communication \Omega(n|\Sigma||Q|\log|Q|). Our solutions require 2 rounds with communication O(n(|\Sigma|+|Q|\log|Q|)). We present two different solutions to this problem, a two-party one and a setting with an untrusted but non-colluding helper.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/375

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