[Resource Topic] 2022/1525: Endemic Oblivious Transfer via Random Oracles, Revisited

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Title:
Endemic Oblivious Transfer via Random Oracles, Revisited

Authors: Zhelei Zhou, Bingsheng Zhang, Hong-Sheng Zhou, Kui Ren

Abstract:

The notion of Endemic Oblivious Transfer (EOT) was introduced by Masny and Rindal (CCS’19). EOT offers a weaker security guarantee than the conventional random OT; namely, the malicious parties can fix their outputs arbitrarily. The authors presented a 1-round UC-secure EOT protocol under a tailor-made and non-standard assumption, Choose-and-Open DDH, in the RO model.

In this work, we systematically study EOT in the UC/GUC framework. We present the first UC-secure 1-round EOT protocol in the RO model under the DDH assumption in both the static and the adaptive security setting. Under the GUC framework, we propose the first 1-round EOT construction under the CDH assumption in the Global Restricted Observable RO (GroRO) model proposed by Canetti et al. (CCS’14). We also provide an impossibility result, showing there exists no 1-round GUC-secure EOT protocols in the Global Restricted Programmable RO (GrpRO) model proposed by Camenisch et al. (Eurocrypt’18).
Subsequently, we provide the first round-optimal (2-round) EOT protocol with adaptive security under the DDH assumption in the GrpRO model. Finally, we investigate the relations between EOT and other cryptographic primitives.

As side products, we present the first 2-round GUC-secure commitment in the GroRO model as well as a separation between the GroRO and the GrpRO model, which may be of independent interest.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1525

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