Satellite workshop of the
Honoring
Michael O. Rabin ( Harvard University and Hebrew University )
Turing Award Winner
This workshop on Oblivious Transfer (OT) will honor Michael Rabin's introduction of Oblivious Transfer in 1981. This is one of his seminal contributions to the area of cryptography. Oblivious transfer is a secure protocol between two parties (Alice, Bob). The protocol starts with Alice holding a secret bit b, and ends either with Bob learning nothing or Bob learning b, each with probability 1/2; where Alice gains no knowledge which of the events happened. Surprisingly, the entire notion of secure computation (where two or more parties compute an arbitrary function of their joint private inputs without leaking any other information) may be based on oblivious transfer. In analogy to gates in a circuit, oblivious transfer may be regarded as the "crypto-gate" for secure computation.
The workshop will host a series of talks intended to (i) Introduce secure computation and oblivious transfer to a general CS audience; and (ii) Present up-to-date research in these areas.
We invite submissions of presentations of recent and ongoing work, addressing (but not limited to) the themes below:
Those who wish to present a talk at the workshop are invited to submit a short abstract of 1-2 pages.
We apologize in advance that, due to time constraints, the workshop might not be able to accommodate all submissions.
Talk abstracts should be submitted by email to .
Benny Pinkas - HP Labs, Israel.
Kobbi Nissim , Dept. of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University.