Scientific Reports (Aug 2017)

Physical implementation of oblivious transfer using optical correlated randomness

  • Tomohiro Ito,
  • Hayato Koizumi,
  • Nobumitsu Suzuki,
  • Izumi Kakesu,
  • Kento Iwakawa,
  • Atsushi Uchida,
  • Takeshi Koshiba,
  • Jun Muramatsu,
  • Kazuyuki Yoshimura,
  • Masanobu Inubushi,
  • Peter Davis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08229-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract We demonstrate physical implementation of information-theoretic secure oblivious transfer based on bounded observability using optical correlated randomness in semiconductor lasers driven by common random light broadcast over optical fibers. We demonstrate that the scheme can achieve one-out-of-two oblivious transfer with effective key generation rate of 110 kb/s. The results show that this scheme is a promising approach to achieve information-theoretic secure oblivious transfer over long distances for future applications of secure computation such as privacy-preserving database mining, auctions and electronic-voting.