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Efficient Oblivious Transfer from Lossy Threshold Homomorphic Encryption
In this article, a new oblivious transfer (OT) protocol, secure
in the presence of erasure-free one-sided active adaptive adversaries
is presented. The new bit OT protocol achieves better communication
complexity than the existing bit OT protocol in this setting. The new bit OT protocol requires fewer number of public key encryption operations than the existing bit OT protocol in this setting. As a building block, a new two-party lossy threshold homomorphic public key cryptosystem is designed. It is secure in the same adversary model. It is of independent interest
A simple generic construction to build oblivious transfer protocols from homomorphic encryption schemes
Oblivious transfer (OT) is a fundamental problem in cryptography where it is required that a sender transfers one of potentially many pieces of information to a receiver and at the same time remains oblivious as to which piece has been transferred. After its introduction back in 1981 by Rabin, some more useful variations of OT appeared in the literature such as , , and . In 2015, a very simple and efficient OT protocol was proposed by Chou and Orlandi. Later, Hauck and Loss proposed an improved protocol and proved it to be fully UC-secure under the CDH assumption. Our goal in this paper is to extend the results of Hauck and Loss and propose a simple generic construction to build and in general . The machinery we employ is homomorphic encryption. We instantiate our construction with some well known homomorphic encryption schemes such as RSA, Paillier, and NTRU to obtain concrete OT protocols. We further provide the details of the proof of the UC-security of our generic construction