Two new approaches to implement oblivious transfer and 1–2 oblivious transfer without interaction, based on the wellknown, Diffie–Hellman public-key distribution algorithm are proposed.
Key-exchange protocols have been overlooked as a possible means for implementing oblivious transfer (OT). In this article, we present protocols for mutual exchange of secrets, 1-out-of-2 OT and coin-flipping similar to the Diffie-Hellman protocol using the idea of obliviously exchanging encryption keys. Since the Diffie-Hellman scheme is widely used, our protocol may provide a useful alternative to the conventional methods for implementation of oblivious transfer and a useful primitive in building larger cryptographic schemes.
The Oblivious Transfer (OT) protocol is a privacy-preserving two-way communication protocol important for building secure multiparty computations. To exchange symmetric keys, this protocol is typically based on the Rivest—Shamir—Adleman (RSA) or Diffie—Hellman (DH) cryptographic systems, which are used for encryption during the message-encryption phase. However, in existing OT protocols, the generation of multiple pairs of public and private keys and data computations are time-consuming. Using bijective functions to transform the ciphertext within the same ciphertext domain can ensure indistinguishability after decryption and reduce the computational complexity. In the semi-honest model, a ciphertext obfuscation-based OT protocol framework is proposed and OT protocols are instantiated based on RSA and DH within this framework. Compared with RSA-based encryption schemes, the proposed protocol requires only one pair of public and private keys. When the number of public and private keys is reduced to one, the receiver can use the public key in the digital certificate of the sender to implement the OT protocol using an identity authentication function. Compared with the OT protocol based on the DH key exchange, this protocol has a small data transmission volume and low computational complexity. Experimental results show that, compared with existing OT protocols, the efficiency of instantiated protocols in the key exchange stage can be improved by at least 30%. Moreover, this protocol can be used as a basic protocol for privacy set intersections, obfuscation circuits, and OT extension protocols.