Generic construction of UC-secure oblivious transfer

Olivier Blazy, Céline Chevalier

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Abstract

We show how to construct a completely generic UC-secure oblivious transfer scheme from a collision-resistant chameleon hash scheme (CH) and a CCA encryption scheme accepting a smooth projective hash function (SPHF). Our work is based on the work of Abdalla et al. at Asiacrypt 2013, where the authors formalize the notion of SPHF-friendly commitments, i.e. accepting an SPHF on the language of valid commitments (to allow implicit decommitment), and show how to construct from them a UCsecure oblivious transfer in a generic way. But Abdalla et al. only gave a DDH-based construction of SPHF-friendly commitment schemes, furthermore highly relying on pairings. In this work, we show how to generically construct an SPHF-friendly commitment scheme from a collisionresistant CH scheme and an SPHF-friendly CCA encryption scheme. This allows us to propose an instanciation of our schemes based on the DDH, as efficient as that of Abdalla et al., but without requiring any pairing. Interestingly, our generic framework also allows us to propose an instantiation based on the learning with errors (LWE) assumption. For the record, we finally propose a last instanciation based on the decisional composite residuosity (DCR) assumption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationApplied Cryptography and Network Security - 13th International Conference, ACNS 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsTal Malkin, Allison Bishop Lewko, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Michalis Polychronakis
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages65-86
Number of pages22
ISBN (Print)9783319281650
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2015 - New York, United States
Duration: 2 Jun 20155 Jun 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9092
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2015
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period2/06/155/06/15

Keywords

  • CCA encryption
  • Commitments
  • Oblivious Transfer
  • Smooth Projective Hash Functions
  • UC framework

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