Efficient distributed 1 out of n oblivious transfer
Yael Gertner, Tal Malkin · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 1997
In this paper, we present a new application for , n 1 oblivious transfer, which i s a n i n teractive protocol between two parties Alice and Bob, where Alice has n secrets and Bob has a query i.A t the end of the protocol Bob has the ith secret and no other information about Alice's other secrets, while Alice does not get any information about i.This new application is the Secure Database Access problem.Motivated by this application, we propose an OT scheme which a c hieves low communication complexity and information theoretic security.We use a distributed model for , n 1 oblivious transfer, where Bob interacts with multiple \Alices".In this model, we base our scheme on any PIR scheme, which i s a s c heme where only the privacy of Bob is considered, and use it to construct an OT scheme, private for both parties, without paying too much i n communication complexity.This results in the rst sublinear information theoretic scheme for , n 1 OT.Further motivated by the application of , n 1 OT for polynomial n, w e raise the issue of repetition in , n 1 OT, where both security and eciency are important.We show that previous protocols for , n 1 oblivious transfer fail in this setting.