/Garbling-Schemes

**NOT SAFE FOR USE** Exploration of garbling scheme performance.

Primary LanguageRust

Garbling Schemes

NOT SAFE FOR USE

This project explores the performance of Yao's garbling scheme and the garbling scheme introduced by Zahur et al. (2014) by running multiple circuits from Smart et al. (n.d.). It was initially intended to compare multiple advanced garbling schemes, but time constraint and unforeseen consequences has led to a simpler project which in turn has led to non-surprising results that show the much more advanced scheme heavily outperforms Yao's garbling scheme.

Running

To benchmark the implementations run:

cargo bench

Limitations

Encoding and decoding does not support partial application. One must at the moment have the entire input or the entire output to do the operations. This will need to be amended for any practical use.

The half-gates garbling schemes does not fully-implement the required operations to ensure security.

Neither scheme implementation has been rigorously tested for correctness, completeness, nor security.

References

Bellare, M., Hoang, V. T., Keelveedhi, S., & Rogaway, P. (2013). Efficient Garbling from a Fixed-Key Blockcipher. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from https://ia.cr/2013/426

Kolesnikov, V., & Schneider, T. (2008). Improved Garbled Circuit: Free XOR Gates and Applications. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from http : //www.cs.toronto.edu/~vlad/papers/XOR ICALP08.pdf

Orlandi, C., Scholl, P., & Baum, C. (2021). Lecture Notes for Cryptographic Computing: 5. Garbled Circuits. 15 Smart, N., Sijacic, D., Mertens, N., Maene, P., Lu, S., Abril, V. A., & Archer, D. (n.d.). 'Bristol Fashion' MPC Circuits. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~nsmart/MPC/

Zahur, S., Rosulek, M., & Evans, D. (2014). Two Halves Make a Whole: Re- ducing Data Transfer in Garbled Circuits using Half Gates. Retrieved December 11, 2021, from https://ia.cr/2014/756