SPEAKER:
Mark Zhandry

TITLE:
Multiparty Key Exchange, Efficient Traitor Tracing, and More
from Indistinguishability Obfuscation

Abstract:

In this work, we show how to use indistinguishability obfuscation (iO)
to build multiparty key exchange, efficient broadcast encryption, and
efficient traitor tracing. Our schemes enjoy several interesting
properties that have not been achievable before:
 - Our multiparty non-interactive key exchange protocol does not
require a trusted setup. Moreover, the size of the published value
from each user is independent of the total number of users.
 - Our broadcast encryption schemes support distributed setup, where
users choose their own secret keys rather than be given secret keys by
a trusted entity. The broadcast ciphertext size is independent of the
number of users.
 - Our traitor tracing system is fully collusion resistant with short
ciphertexts, secret keys, and public key. Ciphertext size is
logarithmic in the number of users and secret key size is independent
of the number of users. Our public key size is polylogarithmic in the
number of users. The recent functional encryption system of Garg,
Gentry, Halevi, Raykova, Sahai, and Waters also leads to a traitor
tracing scheme with similar ciphertext and secret key size, but the
construction in this paper is simpler and more direct. These
constructions resolve an open problem relating to differential privacy.
 - Generalizing our traitor tracing system gives a private broadcast
encryption scheme (where broadcast ciphertexts reveal minimal
information about the recipient set) with optimal size ciphertext.
Our proof of security for private broadcast encryption and traitor
tracing introduces a new tool for iO proofs: the construction makes
use of a key-homomorphic symmetric cipher which plays a crucial role
in the proof of security.