Oblivious transfer
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- Date
- 1981 · confidence high
- Place
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Michael O. Rabin
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Oblivious transfer is a cryptographic protocol in which a sender transfers a piece of information to a receiver without knowing for certain whether it was received, a building block of secure multiparty computation and other advanced cryptographic protocols.
What it led to
- secure multiparty computation
- private e-commerce protocols
- threshold cryptography
- blind signatures and electronic voting systems