Garbled Circuits with Sublinear Evaluator

Abida Haque, David Heath, Vladimir Kolesnikov, Steve Lu, Rafail Ostrovsky, Akash Shah

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Abstract

A recent line of work, Stacked Garbled Circuit (SGC), showed that Garbled Circuit (GC) can be improved for functions that include conditional behavior. SGC relieves the communication bottleneck of 2PC by only sending enough garbled material for a single branch out of the b total branches. Hence, communication is sublinear in the circuit size. However, both the evaluator and the generator pay in computation and perform at least factor log b extra work as compared to standard GC. We extend the sublinearity of SGC to also include the work performed by the GC evaluator E; thus we achieve a fully sublinear E, which is essential when optimizing for the online phase. We formalize our approach as a garbling scheme called GCWise: GC WIth Sublinear Evaluator. We show one attractive and immediate application, Garbled PIR, a primitive that marries GC with Private Information Retrieval. Garbled PIR allows the GC to non-interactively and sublinearly access a privately indexed element from a publicly known database, and then use this element in continued GC evaluation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022 - 41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, 2022, Proceedings
EditorsOrr Dunkelman, Stefan Dziembowski
PublisherSpringer
Pages37-64
Number of pages28
ISBN (Print)9783031069437
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2022 - Trondheim, Norway
Duration: May 30 2022Jun 3 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13275 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference41st Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2022
Country/TerritoryNorway
CityTrondheim
Period5/30/226/3/22

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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