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Efficient protocols for oblivious linear function evaluation from ring-LWE

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  • Carsten Baum
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  • Daniel Escudero
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  • Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa, University of Vigo
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  • Peter Scholl
  • Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne

An oblivious linear function evaluation protocol, or OLE, is a two-party protocol for the function f ( x ) = a x + b, where a sender inputs the field elements a, b, and a receiver inputs x and learns f ( x ). OLE can be used to build secret-shared multiplication, and is an essential component of many secure computation applications including general-purpose multi-party computation, private set intersection and more. In this work, we present several efficient OLE protocols from the ring learning with errors (RLWE) assumption. Technically, we build two new passively secure protocols, which build upon recent advances in homomorphic secret sharing from (R)LWE (Boyle et al. in: EUROCRYPT 2019, Part II (2019) 3-33 Springer), with optimizations tailored to the setting of OLE. We upgrade these to active security using efficient amortized zero-knowledge techniques for lattice relations (Baum et al. in: CRYPTO 2018, Part II (2018) 669-699 Springer), and design new variants of zero-knowledge arguments that are necessary for some of our constructions. Our protocols offer several advantages over existing constructions. Firstly, they have the lowest communication complexity amongst previous, practical protocols from RLWE and other assumptions; secondly, they are conceptually very simple, and have just one round of interaction for the case of OLE where b is randomly chosen. We demonstrate this with an implementation of one of our passively secure protocols, which can perform more than 1 million OLEs per second over the ring Z m , for a 120-bit modulus m, on standard hardware.

Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Computer Security
Volume30
Issue1
Pages (from-to)39-78
Number of pages40
ISSN0926-227X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2022

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    Research areas

  • cryptographic protocols, Oblivious linear evaluation, ring learning with errors, two-party computation, zero-knowledge arguments

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