Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2019

Abstract

In this article, we introduce a new concept of oblivious transfer with membership verification that allows any legitimate group users to obtain services from a service provider in an oblivious manner. We present two oblivious transfer with membership verification schemes, differing in design. In the first scheme, a trusted group manager issues credentials for a pre-determined group of users so that the group of users with a valid group credential can obtain services from the service provider, while the choices made by group users remain oblivious to the service provider. The second scheme avoids the trusted group manager, which allows any user in the group to be a group manager, thus it is more suitable in distributed systems. In particular, we prove that the two oblivious transfer with membership verification schemes can achieve receiver's privacy and sender's privacy under a half-simulation model.

Keywords

Oblivious transfer, membership verification, trusted group manager, distributed systems

Discipline

Information Security

Research Areas

Cybersecurity

Publication

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

Volume

15

Issue

9

First Page

1

Last Page

8

ISSN

1550-1329

Identifier

10.1177/1550147719875645

Publisher

SAGE Publications (UK and US): Open Access Titles / Taylor & Francis (Routledge) / SAGE Publishing

Copyright Owner and License

Authors-CC BY

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/1550147719875645

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