The Communication Complexity of Oblivious Transfer
Oblivious transfer (OT) is a simple, yet powerful, cryptographic primitive. It was introduced by Rabin in the 80s and, since then, it has become a well-established primitive in cryptography. It has numerous applications, and it is known to be complete for multiparty computation.
One of the most important efficiency measures for an OT scheme is its communication complexity. In this talk, we will present new results regarding the communication complexity of OT. We will provide answers for the following questions: Can we build an OT scheme with optimal communication? If so, can we prove security under which hardness assumptions? And what is the strongest level of security we can achieve?
This talk is based on joint works with Zvika Brakerski, Nico Döttling, Sihang Pu and Akshayaram Srinivasan.
27/09/2023 14:00
Software Systems
Pedro Branco is a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy. Previously, he was a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University. He received his PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2022. He was supervised by Paulo Mateus and Nico Döttling
