[Resource Topic] 2022/797: Garbled Circuits With Sublinear Evaluator

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Title:
Garbled Circuits With Sublinear Evaluator

Authors: Abida Haque, David Heath, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Steve Lu, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Akash Shah

Abstract:

Arecentlineofwork, Stacked Garbled Circuit(SGC), showed that Garbled Circuit (GC) can be improved for functions that include conditional behavior. SGC relieves the communication bottleneck of 2PC by only sending enough garbled material for a single branch out of the b total branches. Hence, communication is sublinear in the circuit size. However, both the evaluator and the generator pay in computation and perform at least factor \log b extra work as compared to standard GC. We extend the sublinearity of SGC to also include the work performed by the GC evaluator E; thus we achieve a fully sublinear E, which is essential when optimizing for the online phase. We formalize our approach as a garbling scheme called GCWise: GC WIth Sublinear Evaluator. We show one attractive and immediate application, Garbled PIR, a primitive that marries GC with Private Information Retrieval. Garbled PIR allows the GC to non-interactively and sublinearly access a privately indexed element from a publicly known database, and then use this element in continued GC evaluation.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/797

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aMeluc44Fc

Slides: https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2022/eurocrypt/eurocrypt2022/125/slides.pdf

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