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Oblivious Transfer Based on Physical Unclonable Functions

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Trust and Trustworthy Computing (Trust 2010)

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Oblivious transfer (OT) is a simple, but powerful cryptographic primitive, on the basis of which secure two-party computation and several other cryptographic protocols can be realized. In this paper, we show how OT can be implemented by Strong Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs). Special attention is thereby devoted to a recent subclass of Strong PUFs known as SHIC PUFs. Our results show that the cryptographic potential of these PUFs is perhaps surprisingly large, and goes beyond the usual identification and key exchange protocols.

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  1. Computer Science Department, Technische Universität München, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Ulrich Rührmair

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  1. Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, HBH 2105C, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Alessandro Acquisti

  2. Department of Computer Science, 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory, Dartmouth College, 03755-3510, Hanover, NH, USA

    Sean W. Smith

  3. System Security Lab, Ruhr University Bochum, Universitätsstr. 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

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Rührmair, U. (2010). Oblivious Transfer Based on Physical Unclonable Functions. In: Acquisti, A., Smith, S.W., Sadeghi, AR. (eds) Trust and Trustworthy Computing. Trust 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6101. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13869-0_31

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