• DocumentCode
    2181033
  • Title

    How to simultaneously exchange a secret bit by flipping a symmetrically-biased coin

  • Author

    Luby, Michael ; Micali, Silvio ; Rackof, Charles

  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    7-9 Nov. 1983
  • Firstpage
    11
  • Lastpage
    22
  • Abstract
    We present a cryptographic protocol allowing two mutually distrusting parties, A and B, each having a secret bit, to "simultaneously" exchange the values of those bits. It is assumed that initially each party presents a correct encryption of his secret bit to the other party. We develop a new tool to implement our protocol: a slightly biased symmetric coin. The key property of this coin is that from each flip A receives a piece of probabilistic information about B\´s secret bit which is symmetric to the piece of information B receives about A\´s secret bit.
  • Keywords
    Computer science; Cryptographic protocols; Cryptography; Polynomials; Turing machines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Foundations of Computer Science, 1983., 24th Annual Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Tucson, AZ, USA
  • ISSN
    0272-5428
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-0508-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/SFCS.1983.25
  • Filename
    4568055