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Quasi-light Storage for Optical Data Packets
Published on: February 6, 2014
Physical implementation of oblivious transfer using optical correlated randomness
Tomohiro Ito1, Hayato Koizumi1, Nobumitsu Suzuki1
1Department of Information and Computer Sciences, Saitama University, 255 Shimo-okubo,Sakura-ku, Saitama City, Saitama, 338-8570, Japan.
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.
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