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arxiv: 1611.10087 · v1 · pith:JIJYLNICnew · submitted 2016-11-30 · 🪐 quant-ph · cs.CR

1-out-of-2 Oblivious transfer using flawed Bit-string quantum protocol

classification 🪐 quant-ph cs.CR
keywords protocolalicemessageobliviousout-of-2all-or-nothingbit-stringparty
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Oblivious transfer (OT) is an important tool in cryptography. It serves as a subroutine to other complex procedures of both theoretical and practical significance. Common attribute of OT protocols is that one party (Alice) has to send a message to another party (Bob) and has to stay oblivious on whether Bob did receive the message. Specific (OT) protocols vary by exact definition of the task - in the all-or-nothing protocol Alice sends a single bit-string message, which Bob is able to read only with 50% probability, whereas in 1-out-of-2 OT protocol Bob reads one out of two messages sent by Alice. These two flavours of protocol are known to be equivalent. Recently a computationally secure all-or-nothing OT protocol based on quantum states was developed in [A. Souto et. al., PRA 91, 042306], which however cannot be reduced to 1-out-of-2 OT protocol by standard means. Here we present an elaborated reduction of this protocol which retains the security of the original.

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