[Resource Topic] 2022/1539: Oblivious-Transfer Complexity of Noisy Coin-Toss via Secure Zero Communication Reductions

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Title:
Oblivious-Transfer Complexity of Noisy Coin-Toss via Secure Zero Communication Reductions

Authors: Saumya Goyal, Varun Narayanan, Manoj Prabhakaran

Abstract:

In p-noisy coin-tossing, Alice and Bob obtain fair coins which are of opposite values with probability p. Its Oblivious-Transfer (OT) complexity refers to the least number of OTs required by a semi-honest perfectly secure 2-party protocol for this task. We show a tight bound of Θ(log 1/p) for the OT complexity of p-noisy coin-tossing. This is the first instance of a lower bound for OT complexity that is independent of the input/output length of the function.

We obtain our result by providing a general connection between the OT complexity of randomized functions and the complexity of Secure Zero Communication Reductions (SZCR), as recently de- fined by Narayanan et al. (TCC 2020), and then showing a lower bound for the complexity of an SZCR from noisy coin-tossing to (a predicate corresponding to) OT.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1539

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