Yuval Ishai

Publication List Details

Period

1994 - 2009

Number

137

Co-Authors

Secure Multiparty Computation of Approximations (Extended Abstract) (2009)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Martin J, Rebecca N. Wright

1 Introduction There are an increasing number and variety of real-world applications that collect a massive amount of data and wish to make use of it. For example, massive data sets arise in physical...

Cryptography in NC0 (Extended Abstract) (2008)

Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the parallel time-complexity of basic cryptographic primitives such as one-way functions (OWFs) and pseudorandom generators (PRGs). Specifically, we study the possibility of computing...

computational complexity COMMUNICATION VS. COMPUTATION (2008)

Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, S. Venkatesh

Abstract. We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is the...

Secure Multiparty Computation of Approximations (Extended Abstract) (2008)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Martin J, Rebecca N. Wright

1 Introduction There are an increasing number and variety of real-world applications that collect a massive amount of data and wish to make use of it. For example, massive data sets arise in physical...

Secure Arithmetic Computation with No Honest Majority (2008)

Ishai, Yuval, Prabhakaran, Manoj, Sahai, Amit

We study the complexity of securely evaluating arithmetic circuits over finite rings. This question is motivated by natural secure computation tasks. Focusing mainly on the case of two-party...

Cryptography with Constant Input Locality ⋆ (extended abstract) (2008)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. We study the following natural question: Which cryptographic primitives (if any) can be realized by functions with constant input locality, namely functions in which every bit of the input...

On Pseudorandom Generators with 0 ⋆ Linear Stretch in NC (2008)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. We consider the question of constructing cryptographic pseudorandom generators (PRGs) in NC 0, namely ones in which each bit of the output depends on just a constant number of input bits....

ABSTRACT Black-Box Constructions for Secure Computation ∗ (extended abstract) (2008)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Yehuda Lindell, Erez Petrank

It is well known that the secure computation of non-trivial functionalities in the setting of no honest majority requires computational assumptions. We study the way such computational assumptions...

Compressing Cryptographic Resources (Extended Abstract) (2008)

Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. A private-key cryptosystem may be viewed as a means by which a trusted dealer privately conveys a large, shared pseudo-random object to a pair of players, using little communication....

General constructions for informationtheoretic private information retrieval, 2003. Unpublished manuscripte available at www.cs.bgu.ac.il/ beimel/pub.html (2008)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a databasewhile hiding the identity of the item being retrieved; specifically, in a t-private,...

Cryptography in NC 0 (EXTENDED ABSTRACT)\Lambda (2008)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract We study the parallel time-complexity of basic crypto-graphic primitives such as one-way functions (OWFs) and pseudorandom generators (PRGs). Specifically, we studythe possibility of...

How Many Oblivious Transfers are Needed for Secure Multiparty Computation? ∗ (2008)

Danny Harnik, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Davis Foundation

Oblivious transfer (OT) is an essential building block for secure multiparty computation when there is no honest majority. In this setting, current protocols for n ≥ 3 parties require each pair of...

Zero-Knowledge from Secure Multiparty Computation ∗ ABSTRACT (2008)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

We present a general construction of a zero-knowledge proof for an NP relation R(x, w) which only makes a black-box use of a secure protocol for a related multi-party functionality f. The latter...

(PRELIMINARY VERSION) (2008)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A secret-sharing scheme enables a dealer to distribute a secret among n parties such that only some predefined authorized sets of parties will be able to reconstruct the secret from their shares. The...

Keyword (2008)

Michael J. Freedman, Yuval Ishai, Benny Pinkas, Omer Reingold

xi as the keyword and pi as the payload (database record). A query froma client is a searchword

Breaking the O(n^(1/(2k-1))) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2008)

Barrier For, Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-francois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic,...

Compressing Cryptographic Resources (Extended Abstract) (2007)

Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai

. A private-key cryptosystem may be viewed as a means by which a trusted dealer privately conveys large, identical pseudo-random objects to a pair of players, using little communication....

2 (2007)

Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim

Abstract. We consider the problem of extending oblivious transfers: Given a small number of oblivious transfers \for free, " can one implement a large number of oblivious transfers? Beaver...

1 (2007)

Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is an active research area, and a wide range of literature can be found nowadays suggesting improvements and generalizations of existing protocols in...

, and Tal Rabin (2007)

Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. Substantial eorts have been spent on characterizing the round complexity of various cryptographic tasks. In this work we study the round complexity of secure multiparty computation in the...

3 (2007)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Approximation algorithms can sometimes provide e#cient solutions when no e#cient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed setting where...

z (2007)

Giovanni Di-crescenzo, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky

A private information retrieval scheme allows a user to retrieve a data item of his choice from a remote database (or several copies of a database) while hiding from the database owner which...

Compressing Cryptographic Resources (extended abstract) (2007)

Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. A private-key cryptosystem may be viewed as a means by which a trusted dealer privately conveys a large, shared pseudo-random object to a pair of players, using little communication....

Breaking the O(n 1=(2k\Gamma1) (2007)

Barrier For, Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-francois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic,...

2 (2007)

Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Abstract. Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded...

On Privacy and Partition Arguments 1 (2007)

Benny Chor, Yuval Ishai

A function f(x1; x2; : : : ; xn) is said to be t-private if there exists a (randomized) communication protocol for computing f, such that no coalition of at most t participants can infer any...

y Ravi Kumar (2007)

Ran Canetti, Yuval Ishai, Michael K. Reiter, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Rebecca N. Wright

Motivated by the application of private statistical analysis of large databases, we consider the problem of selective private function evaluation (SPFE). In this problem, a client interacts with one...

3 1 (2007)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Abstract. Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a specific data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding from each server the identity of the...

On the Power of Nonlinear Secret-Sharing (PRELIMINARY VERSION) (2007)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A secret-sharing scheme enables a dealer to distribute a secret among n parties such that only some predefined authorized sets of parties will be able to reconstruct the secret from their shares. The...

y Ravi Kumar (2007)

Ran Canetti, Yuval Ishai, Michael K. Reiter, Ronitt Rubinfeld, Rebecca N. Wright

Motivated by the application of private statistical analysis of large databases, we consider the problem of selective private function evaluation (SPFE). In this problem, a client interacts with one...

Tal Rabin (2007)

Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

The round complexity of interactive protocols is one of their most important complexity measures. In this work we study the exact round complexity of two basic secure computation tasks: Verifiable...

On the Power of Nonlinear Secret-Sharing (PRELIMINARY VERSION) (2007)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A secret-sharing scheme enables a dealer to distribute a secret among n parties such that only some predefined authorized sets of parties will be able to reconstruct the secret from their shares. The...

3 (2007)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Martin J, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Approximation algorithms can sometimes provide e#cient solutions when no e#cient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed setting where...

3 (2007)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Martin J, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Approximation algorithms can sometimes provide efficient solutions when no efficient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed setting...

Breaking the O(n (2007)

Barrier For, Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-francois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic,...

The Round Complexity of Verifiable Secret Sharing (2007)

And Secure Multicast, Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

The round complexity of interactive protocols is one of their most important complexity measures. In this work we study the exact round complexity of two basic secure computation tasks: Veri able...

Private Circuits: Securing Hardware (2007)

Against Probing Attacks, Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded number of...

1 (2007)

Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is an active research area, and a wide range of literature can be found nowadays suggesting improvements and generalizations of existing protocols in...

Private Computation Using a PEZ Dispenser (2007)

Jozsef Balogh, Janos A. Csirik, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We show how a (big) PEZ dispenser can be used by two or more players to compute a function of their inputs while hiding the values of the inputs from each other. In contrast to traditional approaches...

On Pseudorandom Generators with 0 ∗ Linear Stretch in NC (2007)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We consider the question of constructing cryptographic pseudorandom generators (PRGs) in NC 0, namely ones in which each bit of the output depends on just a constant number of input bits. Previous...

Private multiparty sampling and approximation of vector combinations (2007)

Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Martin J. Strauss, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. We consider the problem of private efficient data mining of vertically-partitioned databases. Each of several parties holds a column of a data matrix (a vector) and the parties want to...

Cryptography with Constant Input Locality ∗ (2007)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the following natural question: Which cryptographic primitives (if any) can be realized by functions with constant input locality, namely functions in which every bit of the input influences...

On Combining Privacy with Guaranteed Output Delivery in Secure Multiparty Computation (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Yehuda Lindell, Erez Petrank

In the setting of multiparty computation, a set of parties wish to jointly compute a function of their inputs, while preserving security in the case that some subset of them are corrupted. The...

0 ∗ Cryptography in NC (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the parallel time-complexity of basic cryptographic primitives such as one-way functions (OWFs) and pseudorandom generators (PRGs). Specifically, we study the possibility of implementing...

Cryptography from Anonymity (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

There is a vast body of work on implementing anonymous communication. In this paper we study the possibility of using anonymous communication as a building block, and show that one can leverage on...

Private Circuits II: Keeping Secrets In Tamperable Circuits (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Manoj Prabhakaran, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Motivated by the problem of protecting cryptographic hardware, we continue the investigation of private circuits initiated in [16]. In this work, our aim is to construct circuits that should protect...

Cryptography from Anonymity \Lambda (2006)

Yuval Ishai

Abstract There is a vast body of work on implementing anonymous communication. In this paper, we studythe possibility of using anonymous communication as a building block, and show that one can...

Cryptography from Anonymity (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

There is a vast body of work on implementing anonymous communication. In this paper, we study the possibility of using anonymous communication as a building block, and show that one can leverage on...

0 ∗ Cryptography in NC (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the parallel time-complexity of basic cryptographic primitives such as one-way functions (OWFs) and pseudorandom generators (PRGs). Specifically, we study the possibility of implementing...

Cryptography from Anonymity (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

There is a vast body of work on implementing anonymous communication. In this paper, we study the possibility of using anonymous communication as a building block, and show that one can leverage on...

On pseudorandom generators with linear stretch in NC0 (2006)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract We consider the question of constructing cryptographic pseudorandomgenerators (PRGs) in NC 0, namely ones in which each bit of the output depends on just a constant number of input bits....

Computationally private randomizing polynomials and their applications (2005)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Randomizing polynomials allow to represent a function f(x) by a low-degree randomized mapping ˆf(x, r) whose output distribution on an input x is a randomized encoding of f(x). It is known that any...

Sufficient Conditions for Collision-Resistant Hashing (2005)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky

Abstract. We present several new constructions of collision-resistant hash-functions (CRHFs) from general assumptions. We start with a simple construction of CRHF from any homomorphic encryption....

Secure computation of constant-depth circuits with applications to database search problems (2005)

Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. Motivated by database search problems such as partial match or nearest neighbor, we present secure multiparty computation protocols for constant-depth circuits. Specifically, for a...

Constant-Round Multiparty Computation Using a Black-Box Pseudorandom Generator (2005)

Ivan Damgård, Yuval Ishai

We present a constant-round protocol for general secure multiparty computation which makes a black-box use of a pseudorandom generator. In particular, the protocol does not require expensive...

Computationally private randomizing polynomials and their applications (2005)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Randomizing polynomials allow to represent a function f(x) by a low-degree randomized mapping ˆ f(x, r) whose output distribution on an input x is a randomized encoding of f(x). It is known that any...

Secure computation of constant-depth circuits with applications to database search problems (2005)

Omer Barkol, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. Motivated by database search problems such as partial match or nearest neighbor, we present secure multiparty computation protocols for constant-depth circuits. Specifically, for a...

Constant-round multiparty computation using a black-box pseudorandom generator (2005)

Yuval Ishai

We present a constant-round protocol for general secure multiparty computation which makes a black-box use of a pseudorandom generator. In particular, the protocol does not require expensive...

Sufficient Conditions for Collision-Resistant Hashing (2005)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. We present several new constructions of collision-resistant hash-functions (CRHFs) from general assumptions. We start with a simple construction of CRHF from any homomorphic encryption....

Kushilevitz,“General constructions for information-theoretic private information retrieval (2005)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved; specifically, in a t-private, k-server PIR...

Computationally private randomizing polynomials and their applications (2005)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Randomizing polynomials allow to represent a function f(x) by a low-degree randomized mapping ˆf(x,r) whose output distribution on an input x is a randomized encoding of f(x). It is known that any...

Kushilevitz,“General constructions for information-theoretic private information retrieval (2005)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved; specifically, in a t-private...

Communication vs. computation (2004)

Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, S. Venkatesh

We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is the following: Is...

On the hardness of information-theoretic multiparty computation (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. We revisit the following open problem in information-theoretic cryptography: Does the communication complexity of unconditionally secure computation depend on the computational complexity...

Batch Codes and Their Applications (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

A batch code encodes a string x into an m-tuple of strings, called buckets, such that each batch of k bits from x can be decoded by reading at most one (more generally, t) bits from each bucket....

On the Hardness of Information-Theoretic Multiparty Computation (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We revisit the following open problem in information-theoretic cryptography: Does the communication complexity of unconditionally secure computation depend on the computational complexity of the...

Batch codes and their applications (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai, From Teradata

A batch code encodes a string x into an m-tuple of strings, called buckets, such that each batch of k bits from x can be decoded by reading at most one (more generally, t) bits from each bucket....

On the hardness of information-theoretic multiparty computation (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract We revisit the following open problem in information-theoretic cryptography: Does the communication complexity of unconditionally secure computation depend on the computational complexity of...

Communication vs. computation (2004)

Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, S. Venkatesh

We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is the following: Is...

Communication vs. computation (2004)

Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, S. Venkatesh

We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is the following: Is...

Batch Codes and Their Applications (2004)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky, Amit Sahai

A batch code encodes a string x into an m-tuple of strings, called buckets, such that each batch of k bits from x can be decoded by reading at most one (more generally, t) bits from each bucket....

Communication vs. computation (2004)

Prahladh Harsha, Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, S. Venkatesh

Abstract. We initiate a study of tradeoffs between communication and computation in well-known communication models and in other related models. The fundamental question we investigate is the...

Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings (2003)

Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is an active research area, and a wide range of literature can be found nowadays suggesting improvements and generalizations of existing protocols in...

Private Circuits: Securing Hardware against Probing Attacks (2003)

Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Abstract. Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded...

General Constructions for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2003)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved; specifically, in a t-private, k-server PIR...

Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings (2003)

Ronald Cramer, Serge Fehr, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Abstract. Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is an active research area, and a wide range of literature can be found nowadays suggesting improvements and generalizations of existing protocols in...

Private Circuits: Securing Hardware against Probing Attacks (2003)

Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Abstract. Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded...

Extending oblivious transfers efficiently (2003)

Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, Erez Petrank

Abstract. We consider the problem of extending oblivious transfers: Given a small number of oblivious transfers “for free, ” can one implement a large number of oblivious transfers? Beaver has...

Private Circuits: Securing Hardware against Probing Attacks (2003)

Yuval Ishai, Amit Sahai, David Wagner

Abstract. Can you guarantee secrecy even if an adversary can eavesdrop on your brain? We consider the problem of protecting privacy in circuits, when faced with an adversary that can access a bounded...

On 2-Round Secure Multiparty Computation (2002)

Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Rabin

Abstract. Substantial efforts have been spent on characterizing the round complexity of various cryptographic tasks. In this work we study the round complexity of secure multiparty computation in the...

Perfect constant-round secure computation via perfect randomizing polynomials (2002)

Yuval Ishai

Abstract. Various information-theoretic constant-round secure multiparty protocols are known for classes such as NC 1 and polynomial-size branching programs [1, 13, 18, 3, 19, 10]. All these...

Breaking the O(n 1/(2k−1) ) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2002)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-françois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic,...

Breaking the O(n 1/(2k−1) ) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2002)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-françois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic...

Breaking the O(n 1/(2k−1) ) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2002)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-françois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic...

Breaking the O(n 1/(2k−1) ) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2002)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-françois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Speci£cally, in information-theoretic,...

Breaking the O(n^(1/(2k-1))) Barrier for Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval (2002)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Jean-Francois Raymond

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. Specifically, in information-theoretic,...

On 2-Round Secure Multiparty Computation (2002)

Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Rabin

Abstract. Substantial efforts have been spent on characterizing the round complexity of various cryptographic tasks. In this work we study the round complexity of secure multiparty computation in the...

Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods (2001)

Bill Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold

Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without letting...

Selective private function evaluation with applications to private statistics (2001)

Ran Canetti, Yuval Ishai, Ravi Kumar, Michael K. Reiters

Motivated by the application of private statistical analysis of large databases, we consider the problem of selective private function evaluation (SPFE). In this problem, a client inter-acts with one...

Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods (2001)

Bill Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold

Abstract We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. Morespecifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without letting...

Secure multiparty computation of approximations (2001)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim

Approximation algorithms can sometimes provide efficient solutions when no efficient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed setting where the...

Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods (2001)

Bill Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold

Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without letting...

Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods (2001)

Bill Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold

Abstract. We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without letting...

Priced Oblivious Transfer: How to Sell Digital Goods (2001)

Bill Aiello, Yuval Ishai, Omer Reingold

We consider the question of protecting the privacy of customers buying digital goods. More specifically, our goal is to allow a buyer to purchase digital goods from a vendor without letting the...

On the power of nonlinear secret-sharing (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A secret-sharing scheme enables a dealer to distribute a secret among n parties such that only some predefined authorized sets of parties will be able to reconstruct the secret from their shares. The...

On adaptive vs. non-adaptive security of multiparty protocols (2001)

Ran Canetti, Ivan Damgaard, Stefan Dziembowski, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Security analysis of multiparty cryptographic protocols distinguishes between two types of adversarial settings: In the non-adaptive setting, the set of corrupted parties is chosen in advance, before...

Secure multiparty computation of approximations (2001)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim, Martin Strauss, Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract. Approximation algorithms can sometimes be used to obtain efficient solutions where no efficient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed...

On adaptive vs. non-adaptive security of multiparty protocols (2001)

Ran Canetti, Ivan Damgaard, Stefan Dziembowski, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Security analysis of multiparty cryptographic protocols distinguishes between two types of adversarial settings: In the non-adaptive setting, the set of corrupted parties is chosen in advance, before...

Information-theoretic private information retrieval: A unified construction (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. In a t-private, k-server PIR protocol the...

Information-theoretic private information retrieval: A unified construction (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. In a t-private, k-server PIR...

Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval: A Unified Construction (Extended Abstract) (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

Amos Beimel and Yuval Ishai Ben-Gurion University, Israel. beimel@cs.bgu.ac.il.

The Round-Complexity of Verifiable Secret-Sharing and Secure Multicast (2001)

Rosario Gennaro, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Rabin

The round complexity of interactive protocols is one of their most important complexity measures. In this work we study the exact round complexity of two basic secure computation tasks: Veriable...

Information-Theoretic Private Information Retrieval: A Unified Construction (2001)

Extended Abstract, Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

Amos Beimel and Yuval Ishai Ben-Gurion University, Israel. beimel@cs.bgu.ac.il.

Information-theoretic private information retrieval: A unified construction (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. In a t-private, k-server PIR protocol the...

Secure multiparty computation of approximations (2001)

Joan Feigenbaum, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin, Kobbi Nissim

Approximation algorithms can sometimes provide efficient solutions when no efficient exact computation is known. In particular, approximations are often useful in a distributed setting where the...

Information-theoretic private information retrieval: A unified construction (2001)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai

Abstract. A Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocol enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database while hiding the identity of the item being retrieved. In a t-private, k-server PIR...

Reducing the servers' computation in private information retrieval: Pir with preprocessing (2000)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Abstract. Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a specific data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding from each server the identity of the...

Randomizing polynomials: A new representation with applications to round-efficient secure computation (2000)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Motivated by questions about secure multi-party computation, we introduce and study a new natural representation of functions by polynomials, which we term randomizing polynomials. "Standard...

Reducing the servers' computation in private information retrieval: Pir with preprocessing (2000)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. This problem was...

Improved upper bounds on information-theoretic private information retrieval (1999)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of an n-bit database x, replicated in k servers, while keeping the value of i private from each server. A t-private...

One-way functions are essential for single-server private information retrieval (1999)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to read information from a database without revealing to the server storing the database which information he has read. Kushilevitz and...

Improved upper bounds on information-theoretic private information retrieval (1999)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of an n-bit database x, replicated in k servers, while keeping the value of i private from each server. A t-private...

One-way Functions are Essential for Single-Server Private Information Retrieval (1999)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to read information from a database without revealing to the server storing the database which information he has read. Kushilevitz and...

One-way Functions are Essential for Single-Server Private Information Retrieval (1999)

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols allow a user to read information from a database without revealing to the server storing the database which information he has read. Kushilevitz and...

Protecting Data Privacy in Private Information Retrieval Schemes (1999)

Yael Gertner, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of an n-bit data string x, replicated in k 2 databases (in the information-theoretic setting) or in k 1 databases (in...

Protecting data privacy in private information retrieval schemes (1998)

Yael Gertner, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of an n-bit data string x, replicated in k 2 databases (in the information-theoretic setting) or in k 1 databases (in...

Protecting data privacy in private information retrieval schemes (1998)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of a data string x, replicated in k 2 databases, while keeping the value of i private. The main cost measure for such...

Protecting data privacy in private information retrieval schemes (1998)

Yael Gertner, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) schemes allow a user to retrieve the i-th bit of a data string x, replicated in k 2 databases (in the information-theoretic setting) or k 1 databases (in the...

Non-interactive and non-malleable commitment (1998)

Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky

A commitment protocol is a fundamental cryptographic primitive used as a basic building block throughout modern cryptography. In STOC 1991, Dolev Dwork and Naor showed that in many settings the...

Universal Service-Providers for Database Private Information Retrieval (1998)

Giovanni Di Crescenzo, Yuval Ishai, Rafail Ostrovsky

We consider the question of private information retrieval in the so-called "commoditybased " model. This model was recently proposed by Beaver for practically-oriented service-provider...

Protecting data privacy in private information retrieval schemes (1998)

Yael Gertner, Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Tal Malkin

These results also yield the first implementation of a distributed version of \Gamma n 1 \Delta-OT (1-out-of-n oblivious transfer) with information-theoretic security and sublinear communication...

on On Privacy and Partition Arguments 1 (1997)

Benny Chor, Yuval Ishai

A function and f (x1, x2,...,xn) is said to be t-private if there exists a (randomized) communication protocol for computing f, such that no coalition of at most t participants can infer any...

Private simultaneous messages protocols with applications (1997)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the Private Simultaneous Messages (PSM) model which is a variant of the model proposed in [15]. In the PSM model there are n players P 1; : : : ; Pn, each player P i holding a secret input x...

Private Simultaneous Messages Protocols with Applications (1997)

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz

We study the Private Simultaneous Messages (PSM) model which is a variant of the model proposed in [16]. In the PSM model there are n players P 1 , ..., Pn , each player P i holding a secret input x...

Valid Generalisation from Approximate Interpolation (1996)

Martin Anthony, Peter Bartlett, Yuval Ishai, John Shawe-taylor

Let H and C be sets of functions from domain X to R. We say that H validly generalises C from approximate interpolation if and only if for each j ? 0 and ffl; ffi 2 (0; 1) there is m 0 (j; ffl; ffi)...

Valid generalisation from approximate interpolation (1994)

Martin Anthony, Peter Bartlett, Yuval Ishai, John Shawe-taylor

Let H and C be sets of functions from domain X to ℜ. We say that H validly generalises C from approximate interpolation if and only if for each η> 0 and ɛ, δ ∈ (0, 1) there is m0(η, ɛ,...

Valid generalisation from approximate interpolation (1994)

Martin Anthony, Peter Bartlett, Yuval Ishai, John Shawe-taylor

Let H and C be sets of functions from domain X to ℜ. We say that H validly generalises C from approximate interpolation if and only if for each η> 0 and ɛ, δ ∈ (0, 1) there is m0(η, ɛ,...

Reducing the Servers Computation in Private Information Retrieval: PIR with Preprocessing

Amos Beimel, Yuval Ishai, Tal Malkin

Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a specific data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding from each server the identity of the retrieved...

Sufficient Conditions for Collision-Resistant Hashing

Yuval Ishai, Eyal Kushilevitz, Rafail Ostrovsky

We present several new constructions of collision-resistant hash-functions (CRHFs) from general assumptions. We start with a simple construction of CRHF from any homomorphic encryption. Then, we...