International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 27 June 2020

Ehsan Ebrahimi, Céline Chevalier, Marc Kaplan, Michele Minelli
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In this note, we study the security of oblivious transfer protocols in the presence of adversarial superposition queries. We define a security notion for the sender against a corrupted receiver that makes a superposition query. We present an oblivious transfer protocol that is secure against a quantum receiver restricted to a classical query but it is insecure when the receiver makes a quantum query. In addition, we present an OT protocol that resists to the attack presented in this paper. However, we leave presenting a security proof for this protocol as a direction for the future work.
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