Two-Round Perfectly Secure Message Transmission with Optimal Transmission Rate

Authors Nicolas Resch , Chen Yuan



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Nicolas Resch
  • Informatics' Institute, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chen Yuan
  • School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

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CY would also like to thank Serge Fehr for introducing him to this problem.

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Nicolas Resch and Chen Yuan. Two-Round Perfectly Secure Message Transmission with Optimal Transmission Rate. In 4th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 267, pp. 1:1-1:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2023.1

Abstract

In the model of Perfectly Secure Message Transmission (PSMT), a sender Alice is connected to a receiver Bob via n parallel two-way channels, and Alice holds an 𝓁 symbol secret that she wishes to communicate to Bob. There is an unbounded adversary Eve that controls t of the channels, where n = 2t+1. Eve is able to corrupt any symbol sent through the channels she controls, and furthermore may attempt to infer Alice’s secret by observing the symbols sent through the channels she controls. The transmission is required to be (a) reliable, i.e., Bob must always be able to recover Alice’s secret, regardless of Eve’s corruptions; and (b) private, i.e., Eve may not learn anything about Alice’s secret. We focus on the two-round model, where Bob is permitted to first transmit to Alice, and then Alice responds to Bob.
In this work we provide upper and lower bounds for the PSMT model when the length of the communicated secret 𝓁 is asymptotically large. Specifically, we first construct a protocol that allows Alice to communicate an 𝓁 symbol secret to Bob by transmitting at most 2(1+o_{𝓁→∞}(1))n𝓁 symbols. Under a reasonable assumption (which is satisfied by all known efficient two-round PSMT protocols), we complement this with a lower bound showing that 2n𝓁 symbols are necessary for Alice to privately and reliably communicate her secret. This provides strong evidence that our construction is optimal (even up to the leading constant).

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ACM Subject Classification
  • Security and privacy → Mathematical foundations of cryptography
Keywords
  • Secure transmission
  • Information theoretical secure
  • MDS codes

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