1-Shot Oblivious Transfer and 2-Party Computation from Noisy Quantum Storage

Few primitives are as intertwined with the foundations of cryptography as Oblivious Transfer (OT). Not surprisingly, with the advent of the use of quantum resources in information processing, OT played a central role in establishing new possibilities (and defining impossibilities) pertaining to the use of these novel assets. A major research path is minimizing the required assumptions to achieve OT, and studying their consequences. Regarding its computation, it is impossible to construct unconditionally-secure OT without extra assumptions; and, regarding communication complexity, achieving 1-shot (and even non-interactive) OT has proved to be an elusive task, widely known to be impossible classically. Moreover, this has strong consequencesfor realizing round-optimal secure computation, in particular 1-shot 2-Party Computation (2PC). In this work, three main contributions are evidenced by leveraging quantum resources: 1. Unconditionally-secure 2-message non-interactive OT protocol constructed in the Noisy-Quantum-Storage Model. 2. 1-shot OT in the Noisy-Quantum-Storage Model -- proving that this construction is possible assuming the existence of one-way functions and sequential functions. 3. 1-shot 2PC protocol compiled from a semi-honest 1-shot OT to semi-honest 1-shot Yao's Garbled Circuits protocol.

@article{faleiro2025_2410.08367,
  title={ Non-Interactive Oblivious Transfer and One-Time Programs from Noisy Quantum Storage },
  author={ Ricardo Faleiro and Manuel Goulão and Leonardo Novo and Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.08367},
  year={ 2025 }
}