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UC Priced Oblivious Transfer with Purchase Statistics and Dynamic Pricing
Damodaran, Aditya Shyam Shankar; Dubovitskaya, Maria; Rial, Alfredo
2019In Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2019
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Keywords :
vector commitments; universal composability; priced oblivious transfer
Abstract :
[en] Priced oblivious transfer (POT) is a cryptographic protocol that can be used to protect customer privacy in e-commerce applications. Namely, it allows a buyer to purchase an item from a seller without disclosing to the latter which item was purchased and at which price. Unfortunately, existing POT schemes have some drawbacks in terms of design and functionality. First, the design of existing POT schemes is not modular. Typically, a POT scheme extends a k-out-of-N oblivious transfer (OT) scheme by adding prices to the items. However, all POT schemes do not use OT as a black-box building block with certain security guarantees. Consequently, security of the OT scheme needs to be reanalyzed while proving security of the POT scheme, and it is not possible to swap the underlying OT scheme with any other OT scheme. Second, existing POT schemes do not allow the seller to obtain any kind of statistics about the buyer's purchases, which hinders customer and sales management. Moreover, the seller is not able to change the prices of items without restarting the protocol from scratch. We propose a POT scheme that addresses the aforementioned drawbacks. We prove the security of our POT in the UC framework. We modify a standard POT functionality to allow the seller to receive aggregate statistics about the buyer's purchases and to change prices dynamically. We present a modular construction for POT that realizes our functionality in the hybrid model. One of the building blocks is an ideal functionality for OT. Therefore, our protocol separates the tasks carried out by the underlying OT scheme from the additional tasks needed by a POT scheme. Thanks to that, our protocol is a good example of modular design and can be instantiated with any secure OT scheme as well as other building blocks without reanalyzing security from scratch.
Research center :
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > Applied Security and Information Assurance Group (APSIA)
Disciplines :
Computer science
Author, co-author :
Damodaran, Aditya Shyam Shankar ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
Dubovitskaya, Maria
Rial, Alfredo ;  University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
UC Priced Oblivious Transfer with Purchase Statistics and Dynamic Pricing
Publication date :
December 2019
Event name :
INDOCRYPT 2019
Event date :
From 15-12-2019 to 18-12-2019
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Progress in Cryptology – INDOCRYPT 2019
Pages :
273-296
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
Focus Area :
Computational Sciences
FnR Project :
FNR11650748 - Stateful Zero-knowledge, 2017 (01/03/2018-28/02/2021) - Alfredo Rial
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