Talk:Oblivious transfer

message: :Copied from Wikipedia:Reference desk archive/September 2004 I — Matt 01:00, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oblivious transfer 

message: What is the reference for the RSA-based algorithm presented, claiming to be inspired by Even, Goldreich, and Lempel? Docfink (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Even, S., Goldreich, O., Lempel, A., "A Randomized Protocol for Signing Contracts", 1985, available for example at https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3812.3818 203.215.133.188 (talk) 04:15, 10 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  1-2 OT Even, Goldreich, and Lempel Reference? 

message: Also needed is the assumption that Alice verifies that k_0 \ne k_1 in step 6, otherwise it shows that Bob has selected a k such that (x_0 + k^e) = (x_1 + k^e)~mod~N enabling him to decrypt both choices. Docfink (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1-2 OT Algorithm Assumption 

message: Suggest a hands-on example to highlight the protocol:
A big-box retailer offers one of two discount codes to a consumer to be redeemed later at the register.  The retailer offers a choice of one of "15% off entire order" or "$50 bonus cash" for use on a future purchase.  Using the 1-2 OT protocol, the consumer commits to a choice of one of these two, sends his selection to the retailer, and the retailer issues the discount code encoded with the consumer's choice.  This all happens in such a way that the retailer does not learn the consumer's preference, yet the retailer incurs the cost of only one of the promotions, not both.  (We assume that the consumer wisely pays in cash at the register, to keep his  preferences private.) Docfink (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  1-2 OT Concrete Example 

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message: "Further work has revealed oblivious transfer to be a fundamental and important problem in cryptography. It is considered one of the critical problems in the field, because of the importance of the applications that can be built based on it. In"
This section doesn't explain what the actual applications are (other than possibly "multiparty computing"?), why they are important. Furthermore a new sentence seems to have started and has never been finished, only "In" remains of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Owlstead (talk • contribs) 10:08, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oblivious transfer "importance of applications" 

message: There seems to be some error. The decryption can be done only by those who has the secret key. Here the party who generates key is Alice. And it is bob who decrypts. Something wrong in the algorithm. please correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2607:fea8:e920:f090:3dd6:4e22:a8c2:9100 (talk) 19:45, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
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