Network Working Group A. Davidson
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Apple Inc.
July 08, 2019
Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions (OPRFs) using Prime-Order Groups
draft-irtf-cfrg-voprf-00
Abstract
An Oblivious Pseudorandom Function (OPRF) is a two-party protocol for
computing the output of a PRF. One party (the server) holds the PRF
secret key, and the other (the client) holds the PRF input. The
'obliviousness' property ensures that the server does not learn
anything about the client's input during the evaluation. The client
should also not learn anything about the server's secret PRF key.
Optionally, OPRFs can also satisfy a notion 'verifiability' (VOPRF).
In this setting, the client can verify that the server's output is
indeed the result of evaluating the underlying PRF with just a public
key. This document specifies OPRF and VOPRF constructions
instantiated within prime-order groups, including elliptic curves.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Security Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. OPRF Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Protocol correctness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Instantiations of GG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3. OPRF algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.3.1. OPRF_Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3.2. OPRF_Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3.3. OPRF_Eval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3.4. OPRF_Unblind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3.5. OPRF_Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.4. VOPRF algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4.1. VOPRF_Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4.2. VOPRF_Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.3. VOPRF_Eval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.4. VOPRF_Unblind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4.5. VOPRF_Finalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5. Utility algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5.1. bin2scalar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.6. Efficiency gains with pre-processing and fixed-base
blinding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.6.1. OPRF_Preprocess . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6.2. OPRF_Blind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6.3. OPRF_Unblind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. NIZK Discrete Logarithm Equality Proof . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.1. DLEQ_Generate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
5.2. DLEQ_Verify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
6. Batched VOPRF evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1. Batched DLEQ algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1.1. Batched_DLEQ_Generate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
6.1.2. Batched_DLEQ_Verify . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
6.2. Modified protocol execution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.3. Random oracle instantiations for proofs . . . . . . . . . 21
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7. Supported ciphersuites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.1. ECVOPRF-P256-HKDF-SHA256-SSWU: . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
7.2. ECVOPRF-RISTRETTO-HKDF-SHA512-Elligator2: . . . . . . . . 22
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
8.1. Timing Leaks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.2. Hashing to curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
8.3. Verifiability (key consistency) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9. Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
9.1. Privacy Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.2. Private Password Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
9.2.1. Parameter Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
10. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
11. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Appendix A. Test Vectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1. Introduction
A pseudorandom function (PRF) F(k, x) is an efficiently computable
function with secret key k on input x. Roughly, F is pseudorandom if
the output y = F(k, x) is indistinguishable from uniformly sampling
any element in F's range for random choice of k. An oblivious PRF
(OPRF) is a two-party protocol between a prover P and verifier V
where P holds a PRF key k and V holds some input x. The protocol
allows both parties to cooperate in computing F(k, x) with P's secret
key k and V's input x such that: V learns F(k, x) without learning
anything about k; and P does not learn anything about x. A
Verifiable OPRF (VOPRF) is an OPRF wherein P can prove to V that F(k,
x) was computed using key k, which is bound to a trusted public key Y
= kG. Informally, this is done by presenting a non-interactive zero-
knowledge (NIZK) proof of equality between (G, Y) and (Z, M), where Z
= kM for some point M.
OPRFs have been shown to be useful for constructing: password-
protected secret sharing schemes [JKK14]; privacy-preserving password
stores [SJKS17]; and password-authenticated key exchange or PAKE
[OPAQUE]. VOPRFs are useful for producing tokens that are verifiable
by V. This may be needed, for example, if V wants assurance that P
did not use a unique key in its computation, i.e., if V wants key
consistency from P. This property is necessary in some applications,
e.g., the Privacy Pass protocol [PrivacyPass], wherein this VOPRF is
used to generate one-time authentication tokens to bypass CAPTCHA
challenges. VOPRFs have also been used for password-protected secret
sharing schemes e.g. [JKKX16].
This document introduces an OPRF protocol built in prime-order
groups, applying to finite fields of prime-order and also elliptic
curve (EC) settings. The protocol has the option of being extended
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to a VOPRF with the addition of a NIZK proof for proving discrete log
equality relations. This proof demonstrates correctness of the
computation using a known public key that serves as a commitment to
the server's secret key. In the EC setting, we will refer to the
protocol as ECOPRF (or ECVOPRF if verifiability is concerned). The
document describes the protocol, its security properties, and
provides preliminary test vectors for experimentation. The rest of
the document is structured as follows:
o Section 2: Describe background, related work, and use cases of
OPRF/VOPRF protocols.
o Section 3: Discuss security properties of OPRFs/VOPRFs.
o Section 4: Specify an authentication protocol from OPRF
functionality, based in prime-order groups (with an optional
verifiable mode). Algorithms are stated formally for OPRFs in
Section 4.3 and for VOPRFs in Section 4.4.
o Section 5: Specify the NIZK discrete logarithm equality (DLEQ)
construction used for constructing the VOPRF protocol.
o Section 6: Specifies how the DLEQ proof mechanism can be batched
for multiple VOPRF invocations, and how this changes the protocol
execution.
o Section 7: Considers explicit instantiations of the protocol in
the elliptic curve setting.
o Section 8: Discusses the security considerations for the OPRF and
VOPRF protocol.
o Section 9: Discusses some existing applications of OPRF and VOPRF
protocols.
o Appendix A: Specifies test vectors for implementations in the
elliptic curve setting.
1.1. Terminology
The following terms are used throughout this document.
o PRF: Pseudorandom Function.
o OPRF: Oblivious PRF.
o VOPRF: Verifiable Oblivious Pseudorandom Function.
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o ECVOPRF: A VOPRF built on Elliptic Curves.
o Verifier (V): Protocol initiator when computing F(k, x).
o Prover (P): Holder of secret key k.
o NIZK: Non-interactive zero knowledge.
o DLEQ: Discrete Logarithm Equality.
1.2. Requirements
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
2. Background
OPRFs are functionally related to blind signature schemes. In such a
scheme, a client can receive signatures on private data, under the
signing key of some server. The security properties of such a scheme
dictate that the client learns nothing about the signing key, and
that the server learns nothing about the data that is signed. One of
the more popular blind signature schemes is based on the RSA
cryptosystem and is known as Blind RSA [ChaumBlindSignature].
OPRF protocols can thought of as symmetric alternatives to blind
signatures. Essentially the client learns y = PRF(k,x) for some
input x of their choice, from a server that holds k. Since the
security of an OPRF means that x is hidden in the interaction, then
the client can later reveal x to the server along with y.
The server can verify that y is computed correctly by recomputing the
PRF on x using k. In doing so, the client provides knowledge of a
'signature' y for their value x. The verification procedure is thus
symmetric as it requires knowledge of the key k. This is discussed
more in the following section.
3. Security Properties
The security properties of an OPRF protocol with functionality y =
F(k, x) include those of a standard PRF. Specifically:
o Pseudorandomness: F is pseudorandom if the output y = F(k,x) on
any input x is indistinguishable from uniformly sampling any
element in F's range, for a random sampling of k.
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In other words, for an adversary that can pick inputs x from the
domain of F and can evaluate F on (k,x) (without knowledge of
randomly sampled k), then the output distribution F(k,x) is
indistinguishable from the uniform distribution in the range of F.
A consequence of showing that a function is pseudorandom, is that it
is necessarily non-malleable (i.e. we cannot compute a new evaluation
of F from an existing evaluation). A genuinely random function will
be non-malleable with high probability, and so a pseudorandom
function must be non-malleable to maintain indistinguishability.
An OPRF protocol must also satisfy the following property:
o Oblivious: P must learn nothing about V's input or the output of
the function. In addition, V must learn nothing about P's private
key.
Essentially, obliviousness tells us that, even if P learns V's input
x at some point in the future, then P will not be able to link any
particular OPRF evaluation to x. This property is also known as
unlinkability [DGSTV18].
Optionally, for any protocol that satisfies the above properties,
there is an additional security property:
o Verifiable: V must only complete execution of the protocol if it
can successfully assert that the OPRF output computed by V is
correct, with respect to the OPRF key held by P.
Any OPRF that satisfies the 'verifiable' security property is known
as a verifiable OPRF, or VOPRF for short. In practice, the notion of
verifiability requires that P commits to the key k before the actual
protocol execution takes place. Then V verifies that P has used k in
the protocol using this commitment. In the following, we may also
refer to this commitment as a public key.
4. OPRF Protocol
In this section we describe the OPRF protocol. Let GG be an additive
group of prime-order p, let GF(p) be the Galois field defined by the
integers modulo p. Define distinct hash functions H_1 and H_2, where
H_1 maps arbitrary input onto GG and H_2 maps arbitrary input to a
fixed-length output, e.g., SHA256. All hash functions in the
protocol are modelled as random oracles. Let L be the security
parameter. Let k be the prover's (P) secret key, and Y = kG be its
corresponding 'public key' for some fixed generator G taken from the
description of the group GG. This public key Y is also referred to
as a commitment to the OPRF key k, and the pair (G,Y) as a commitment
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pair. Let x be the verifier's (V) input to the OPRF protocol.
(Commonly, it is a random L-bit string, though this is not required.)
The OPRF protocol begins with V blinding its input for the OPRF
evaluator such that it appears uniformly distributed GG. The latter
then applies its secret key to the blinded value and returns the
result. To finish the computation, V then removes its blind and
hashes the result using H_2 to yield an output. This flow is
illustrated below.
Verifier Prover
----------------------------------------------------------
r <-$ GF(p)
M = rH_1(x) mod p
M
------->
Z = kM mod p
[D = DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z)]
Z[,D]
<-------
[b = DLEQ_Verify(G,Y,M,Z,D)]
N = Zr^(-1) mod p
Output H_2(x, N) mod p [if b=1, else "error"]
Steps that are enclosed in square brackets (DLEQ_Generate and
DLEQ_Verify) are optional for achieving verifiability. These are
described in Section 5. In the verifiable mode, we assume that P has
previously committed to their choice of key k with some values
(G,Y=kG) and these are publicly known by V. Notice that revealing
(G,Y) does not reveal k by the well-known hardness of the discrete
log problem.
Strictly speaking, the actual PRF function that is computed is:
F(k, x) = N = kH_1(x)
It is clear that this is a PRF H_1(x) maps x to a random element in
GG, and GG is cyclic. This output is computed when the client
computes Zr^(-1) by the commutativity of the multiplication. The
client finishes the computation by outputting H_2(x,N). Note that
the output from P is not the PRF value because the actual input x is
blinded by r.
This protocol may be decomposed into a series of steps, as described
below:
o OPRF_Setup(l): Generate am integer k of sufficient bit-length l
and output k.
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o OPRF_Blind(x): Compute and return a blind, r, and blinded
representation of x in GG, denoted M.
o OPRF_Eval(k,M,h?): Evaluates on input M using secret key k to
produce Z, the input h is optional and equal to the cofactor of an
elliptic curve. If h is not provided then it defaults to 1.
o OPRF_Unblind(r,Z): Unblind blinded OPRF evaluation Z with blind r,
yielding N and output N.
o OPRF_Finalize(x,N): Finalize N to produce the output H_2(x, N).
For verifiability we modify the algorithms of VOPRF_Setup, VOPRF_Eval
and VOPRF_Unblind to be the following:
o VOPRF_Setup(l): Generate an integer k of sufficient bit-length l
and output (k, (G,Y)) where Y = kG for the fixed generator G of
GG.
o VOPRF_Eval(k,(G,Y),M,h?): Evaluates on input M using secret key k
to produce Z. Generate a NIZK proof D = DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z),
and output (Z, D). The optional cofactor h can also be provided,
as in OPRF_Eval.
o VOPRF_Unblind(r,G,Y,M,(Z,D)): Unblind blinded OPRF evaluation Z
with blind r, yielding N. Output N if 1 = DLEQ_Verify(G,Y,M,Z,D).
Otherwise, output "error".
We leave the rest of the OPRF algorithms unmodified. When referring
explicitly to VOPRF execution, we replace 'OPRF' in all method names
with 'VOPRF'.
4.1. Protocol correctness
Protocol correctness requires that, for any key k, input x, and (r,
M) = OPRF_Blind(x), it must be true that:
OPRF_Finalize(x, OPRF_Unblind(r,M,OPRF_Eval(k,M))) = H_2(x, F(k,x))
with overwhelming probability. Likewise, in the verifiable setting,
we require that:
VOPRF_Finalize(x, VOPRF_Unblind(r,(G,Y),M,(VOPRF_Eval(k,(G,Y),M)))) = H_2(x, F(k,x))
with overwhelming probability, where (r, M) = VOPRF_Blind(x).
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4.2. Instantiations of GG
As we remarked above, GG is a subgroup with associated prime-order p.
While we choose to write operations in the setting where GG comes
equipped with an additive operation, we could also define the
operations in the multiplicative setting. In the multiplicative
setting we can choose GG to be a prime-order subgroup of a finite
field FF_p. For example, let p be some large prime (e.g. > 2048
bits) where p = 2q+1 for some other prime q. Then the subgroup of
squares of FF_p (elements u^2 where u is an element of FF_p) is
cyclic, and we can pick a generator of this subgroup by picking G
from FF_p (ignoring the identity element).
For practicality of the protocol, it is preferable to focus on the
cases where GG is an additive subgroup so that we can instantiate the
OPRF in the elliptic curve setting. This amounts to choosing GG to
be a prime-order subgroup of an elliptic curve over base field GF(p)
for prime p. There are also other settings where GG is a prime-order
subgroup of an elliptic curve over a base field of non-prime order,
these include the work of Ristretto [RISTRETTO] and Decaf [DECAF].
We will use p > 0 generally for constructing the base field GF(p),
not just those where p is prime. To reiterate, we focus only on the
additive case, and so we focus only on the cases where GF(p) is
indeed the base field.
Unless otherwise stated, we will always assume that the generator G
that we use for the group GG is a fixed generator. This generator
should be provided in the description of the group GG.
4.3. OPRF algorithms
This section provides algorithms for each step in the OPRF protocol.
We describe the VOPRF analogues in Section 4.4. We provide generic
utility algorithms in Section 4.5.
1. P samples a uniformly random key k <- {0,1}^l for sufficient
length l, and interprets it as an integer.
2. V computes X = H_1(x) and a random element r (blinding factor)
from GF(p), and computes M = rX.
3. V sends M to P.
4. P computes Z = kM = rkX.
5. In the elliptic curve setting, P multiplies Z by the cofactor
(denoted h) of the elliptic curve.
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6. P sends Z to V.
7. V unblinds Z to compute N = r^(-1)Z = kX.
8. V outputs the pair H_2(x, N).
We note here that the blinding mechanism that we use can be modified
slightly with the opportunity for making performance gains in some
scenarios. We detail these modifications in Section Section 4.6.
4.3.1. OPRF_Setup
Input:
l: Some suitable choice of key-length (e.g. as described in [NIST]).
Output:
k: A key chosen from {0,1}^l and interpreted as an integer value.
Steps:
1. Sample k_bin <-$ {0,1}^l
2. Output k <- bin2scalar(k_bin, l)
4.3.2. OPRF_Blind
Input:
x: V's PRF input.
Output:
r: Random scalar in [1, p - 1].
M: Blinded representation of x using blind r, an element in GG.
Steps:
1. r <-$ GF(p)
2. M := rH_1(x)
3. Output (r, M)
4.3.3. OPRF_Eval
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Input:
k: Evaluator secret key.
M: An element in GG.
h: optional cofactor (defaults to 1).
Output:
Z: Scalar multiplication of the point M by k, element in GG.
Steps:
1. Z := kM
2. Z <- hZ
3. Output Z
4.3.4. OPRF_Unblind
Input:
r: Random scalar in [1, p - 1].
Z: An element in GG.
Output:
N: Unblinded OPRF evaluation, element in GG.
Steps:
1. N := (r^(-1))Z
2. Output N
4.3.5. OPRF_Finalize
Input:
x: PRF input string.
N: An element in GG.
Output:
y: Random element in {0,1}^L.
Steps:
1. y := H_2(x, N)
2. Output y
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4.4. VOPRF algorithms
The steps in the VOPRF setting are written as:
1. P samples a uniformly random key k <- {0,1}^l for sufficient
length l, and interprets it as an integer.
2. P commits to k by computing (G,Y) for Y=kG, where G is the fixed
generator of GG. P makes the pair (G,Y) publicly available.
3. V computes X = H_1(x) and a random element r (blinding factor)
from GF(p), and computes M = rX.
4. V sends M to P.
5. P computes Z = kM = rkX, and D = DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z).
6. P sends (Z, D) to V.
7. V ensures that 1 = DLEQ_Verify(G,Y,M,Z,D). If not, V outputs an
error.
8. V unblinds Z to compute N = r^(-1)Z = kX.
9. V outputs the pair H_2(x, N).
4.4.1. VOPRF_Setup
Input:
G: Public fixed generator of GG.
l: Some suitable choice of key-length (e.g. as described in [NIST]).
Output:
k: A key chosen from {0,1}^l and interpreted as an integer value.
(G,Y): A pair of curve points, where Y=kG.
Steps:
1. k <- OPRF_Setup(l)
2. Y := kG
3. Output (k, (G,Y))
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4.4.2. VOPRF_Blind
Input:
x: V's PRF input.
Output:
r: Random scalar in [1, p - 1].
M: Blinded representation of x using blind r, an element in GG.
Steps:
1. r <-$ GF(p)
2. M := rH_1(x)
3. Output (r, M)
4.4.3. VOPRF_Eval
Input:
k: Evaluator secret key.
G: Public fixed generator of group GG.
Y: Evaluator public key (= kG).
M: An element in GG.
h: optional cofactor (defaults to 1).
Output:
Z: Scalar multiplication of the point M by k, element in GG.
D: DLEQ proof that log_G(Y) == log_M(Z).
Steps:
1. Z := kM
2. Z <- hZ
3. D = DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z)
4. Output (Z, D)
4.4.4. VOPRF_Unblind
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Input:
r: Random scalar in [1, p - 1].
G: Public fixed generator of group GG.
Y: Evaluator public key.
M: Blinded representation of x using blind r, an element in GG.
Z: An element in GG.
D: D = DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z).
Output:
N: Unblinded OPRF evaluation, element in GG.
Steps:
1. N := (r^(-1))Z
2. If 1 = DLEQ_Verify(G,Y,M,Z,D), output N
3. Output "error"
4.4.5. VOPRF_Finalize
Input:
x: PRF input string.
N: An element in GG, or "error".
Output:
y: Random element in {0,1}^L, or "error"
Steps:
1. If N == "error", output "error".
2. y := H_2(x, N)
3. Output y
4.5. Utility algorithms
4.5.1. bin2scalar
This algorithm converts a binary string to an integer modulo p.
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Input:
s: binary string (little-endian)
l: length of binary string
p: modulus
Output:
z: An integer modulo p
Steps:
1. sVec <- vec(s) (converts s to a column vector of dimension l)
2. p2Vec <- (2^0, 2^1, ..., 2^{l-1}) (row vector of dimension l)
3. z <- p2Vec * sVec (mod p)
4. Output z
4.6. Efficiency gains with pre-processing and fixed-base blinding
In Section Section 4.3 we assume that the client-side blinding is
carried out directly on the output of H_1(x), i.e. computing rH_1(x)
for some r <-$ GF(p). In the [OPAQUE] draft, it is noted that it may
be more efficient to use additive blinding rather than multiplicative
if the client can preprocess some values. For example, a valid way
of computing additive blinding would be to instead compute H_1(x)+rG,
where G is the fixed generator for the group GG.
We refer to the 'multiplicative' blinding as variable-base blinding
(VBB), since the base of the blinding (H_1(x)) varies with each
instantiation. We refer to the additive blinding case as fixed-base
blinding (FBB) since the blinding is applied to the same generator
each time (when computing rG).
By pre-processing tables of blinded scalar multiplications for the
specific choice of G it is possible to gain a computational
advantage. Choosing one of these values rG (where r is the scalar
value that is used), then computing H_1(x)+rG is more efficient than
computing rH_1(x) (one addition against log_2(r)). Therefore, it may
be advantageous to define the OPRF and VOPRF protocols using additive
blinding rather than multiplicative blinding. In fact, the only
algorithms that need to change are OPRF_Blind and OPRF_Unblind (and
similarly for the VOPRF variants).
We define the FBB variants of the algorithms in Section 4.3 below
along with a new algorithm OPRF_Preprocess that defines how
preprocessing is carried out. The equivalent algorithms for VOPRF
are almost identical and so we do not redefine them here. Notice
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that the only computation that changes is for V, the necessary
computation of P does not change.
4.6.1. OPRF_Preprocess
Input:
G: Public fixed generator of GG
Output:
r: Random scalar in [1, p-1]
rG: An element in GG.
rY: An element in GG.
Steps:
1. r <-$ GF(p)
2. Output (r, rG, rY)
4.6.2. OPRF_Blind
Input:
x: V's PRF input.
rG: Preprocessed element of GG.
Output:
M: Blinded representation of x using blind r, an element in GG.
Steps:
1. M := H_1(x)+rG
2. Output M
4.6.3. OPRF_Unblind
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Input:
rY: Preprocessed element of GG.
M: Blinded representation of x using rG, an element in GG.
Z: An element in GG.
Output:
N: Unblinded OPRF evaluation, element in GG.
Steps:
1. N := Z-rY
2. Output N
Notice that OPRF_Unblind computes (Z-rY) = k(H_1(x)+rG) - rkG =
kH_1(x) by the commutativity of scalar multiplication in GG. This is
the same output as in the original OPRF_Unblind algorithm.
5. NIZK Discrete Logarithm Equality Proof
For the VOPRF protocol we require that V is able to verify that P has
used its private key k to evaluate the PRF. We can do this by
showing that the original commitment (G,Y) output by VOPRF_Setup(l)
satisfies log_G(Y) == log_M(Z) where Z is the output of
VOPRF_Eval(k,(G,Y),M).
This may be used, for example, to ensure that P uses the same private
key for computing the VOPRF output and does not attempt to "tag"
individual verifiers with select keys. This proof must not reveal
the P's long-term private key to V.
Consequently, this allows extending the OPRF protocol with a (non-
interactive) discrete logarithm equality (DLEQ) algorithm built on a
Chaum-Pedersen [ChaumPedersen] proof. This proof is divided into two
procedures: DLEQ_Generate and DLEQ_Verify. These are specified
below.
5.1. DLEQ_Generate
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Input:
k: Evaluator secret key.
G: Public fixed generator of GG.
Y: Evaluator public key (= kG).
M: An element in GG.
Z: An element in GG.
H_3: A hash function from GG to {0,1}^L, modelled as a random oracle.
Output:
D: DLEQ proof (c, s).
Steps:
1. r <-$ GF(p)
2. A := rG and B := rM.
3. c <- H_3(G,Y,M,Z,A,B)
4. s := (r - ck) (mod p)
5. Output D := (c, s)
We note here that it is essential that a different r value is used
for every invocation. If this is not done, then this may leak the
key k in a similar fashion as is possible in Schnorr or (EC)DSA
scenarios where fresh randomness is not used.
5.2. DLEQ_Verify
Input:
G: Public fixed generator of GG.
Y: Evaluator public key.
M: An element in GG.
Z: An element in GG.
D: DLEQ proof (c, s).
Output:
True if log_G(Y) == log_M(Z), False otherwise.
Steps:
1. A' := (sG + cY)
2. B' := (sM + cZ)
3. c' <- H_3(G,Y,M,Z,A',B')
4. Output c == c'
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6. Batched VOPRF evaluation
Common applications (e.g. [PrivacyPass]) require V to obtain
multiple PRF evaluations from P. In the VOPRF case, this would also
require generation and verification of a DLEQ proof for each Zi
received by V. This is costly, both in terms of computation and
communication. To get around this, applications use a 'batching'
procedure for generating and verifying DLEQ proofs for a finite
number of PRF evaluation pairs (Mi,Zi). For n PRF evaluations:
o Proof generation is slightly more expensive from 2n modular
exponentiations to 2n+2.
o Proof verification is much more efficient, from 4n modular
exponentiations to 2n+4.
o Communications falls from 2n to 2 group elements.
Therefore, since P is usually a powerful server, we can tolerate a
slight increase in proof generation complexity for much more
efficient communication and proof verification.
In this section, we describe algorithms for batching the DLEQ
generation and verification procedure. For these algorithms we
require an additional random oracle H_5: {0,1}^a x ZZ^3 -> {0,1}^b
that takes an inputs of a binary string of length a and three integer
values, and outputs an element in {0,1}^b.
6.1. Batched DLEQ algorithms
6.1.1. Batched_DLEQ_Generate
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Input:
k: Evaluator secret key.
G: Public fixed generator of group GG.
Y: Evaluator public key (= kG).
n: Number of PRF evaluations.
[ Mi ]: An array of points in GG of length n.
[ Zi ]: An array of points in GG of length n.
H_4: A hash function from GG^(2n+2) to {0,1}^a, modelled as a random oracle.
H_5: A hash function from {0,1}^a x ZZ^2 to {0,1}^b, modelled as a random oracle.
label: An integer label value for the splitting the domain of H_5
Output:
D: DLEQ proof (c, s).
Steps:
1. seed <- H_4(G,Y,[Mi,Zi]))
2. for i in [n]: di <- H_5(seed,i,label)
3. c1,...,cn := (int)d1,...,(int)dn
4. M := c1M1 + ... + cnMn
5. Z := c1Z1 + ... + cnZn
6. Output D <- DLEQ_Generate(k,G,Y,M,Z)
6.1.2. Batched_DLEQ_Verify
Input:
G: Public fixed generator of group GG.
Y: Evaluator public key.
[ Mi ]: An array of points in GG of length n.
[ Zi ]: An array of points in GG of length n.
D: DLEQ proof (c, s).
Output:
True if log_G(Y) == log_(Mi)(Zi) for each i in 1...n, False otherwise.
Steps:
1. seed <- H_4(G,Y,[Mi,Zi]))
2. for i in [n]: di <- H_5(seed,i,info)
3. c1,...,cn := (int)d1,...,(int)dn
4. M := c1M1 + ... + cnMn
5. Z := c1Z1 + ... + cnZn
6. Output DLEQ_Verify(G,Y,M,Z,D)
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6.2. Modified protocol execution
The VOPRF protocol from Section Section 4 changes to allow specifying
multiple blinded PRF inputs [ Mi ] for i in 1...n. P computes the
array [ Zi ] and replaces DLEQ_Generate with Batched_DLEQ_Generate
over these arrays. The same applies to the algorithm VOPRF_Eval.
The same applies for replacing DLEQ_Verify with Batched_DLEQ_Verify
when V verifies the response from P and during the algorithm
VOPRF_Verify.
6.3. Random oracle instantiations for proofs
We can instantiate the random oracle function H_4 using the same hash
function that is used for H_1,H_2,H_3. For H_5, we can also use a
similar instantiation, or we can use a variable-length output
generator. For example, for groups with an order of 256-bit, valid
instantiations include functions such as SHAKE-256 [SHAKE] or HKDF-
Expand-SHA256 [RFC5869].
In addition if a function with larger output than the order of the
base field is used, we note that the outputs of H_5 (d1,...,dn) must
be smaller than this order. If any di that is sampled is larger than
then order, then we should resample until a di' is sampled that is
valid.
In these cases, the iterating integer i is increased monotonically to
i' until such di' is sampled. When sampling the next value d(i+1),
the counter i+1 is started at i'+1.
TODO: Give a more detailed specification of this construction.
7. Supported ciphersuites
This section specifies supported ECVOPRF group and hash function
instantiations. We only provide ciphersuites in the EC setting as
these provide the most efficient way of instantiating the OPRF. Our
instantiation includes considerations for providing the DLEQ proofs
that make the instantiation a VOPRF. Supporting OPRF operations
(ECOPRF) alone can be allowed by simply dropping the relevant
components. In addition, we currently only support ciphersuites
demonstrating 128 bits of security.
7.1. ECVOPRF-P256-HKDF-SHA256-SSWU:
o GG: SECP256K1 curve [SEC2]
o H_1: H2C-P256-SHA256-SSWU- [I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]
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* label: voprf_h2c
o H_2: SHA256
o H_3: SHA256
o H_4: SHA256
o H_5: HKDF-Expand-SHA256
7.2. ECVOPRF-RISTRETTO-HKDF-SHA512-Elligator2:
o GG: Ristretto [RISTRETTO]
o H_1: H2C-Curve25519-SHA512-Elligator2-Clear
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]
* label: voprf_h2c
o H_2: SHA512
o H_3: SHA512
o H_4: SHA512
o H_5: HKDF-Expand-SHA512
In the case of Ristretto, internal point representations are
represented by Ed25519 [RFC7748] points. As a result, we can use the
same hash-to-curve encoding as we would use for Ed25519
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]. We remark that the 'label' field is
necessary for domain separation of the hash-to-curve functionality.
8. Security Considerations
Security of the protocol depends on P's secrecy of k. Best practices
recommend P regularly rotate k so as to keep its window of compromise
small. Moreover, if each key should be generated from a source of
safe, cryptographic randomness.
A critical aspect of this protocol is reliance on
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve] for mapping arbitrary inputs x to
points on a curve. Security requires this mapping be pre-image and
collision resistant.
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8.1. Timing Leaks
To ensure no information is leaked during protocol execution, all
operations that use secret data MUST be constant time. Operations
that SHOULD be constant time include: H_1() (hashing arbitrary
strings to curves) and DLEQ_Generate().
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve] describes various algorithms for
constant-time implementations of H_1.
8.2. Hashing to curves
We choose different encodings in relation to the elliptic curve that
is used, all methods are illuminated precisely in
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]. In summary, we use the simplified
Shallue-Woestijne-Ulas algorithm for hashing binary strings to the
P-256 curve; the Icart algorithm for hashing binary strings to P384;
the Elligator2 algorithm for hashing binary strings to CURVE25519 and
CURVE448.
8.3. Verifiability (key consistency)
DLEQ proofs are essential to the protocol to allow V to check that
P's designated private key was used in the computation. A side
effect of this property is that it prevents P from using a unique key
for select verifiers as a way of "tagging" them. If all verifiers
expect use of a certain private key, e.g., by locating P's public key
published from a trusted registry, then P cannot present unique keys
to an individual verifier.
For this side effect to hold, P must also be prevented from using
other techniques to manipulate their public key within the trusted
registry to reduce client anonymity. For example, if P's public key
is rotated too frequently then this may stratify the user base into
small anonymity groups (those with VOPRF_Eval outputs taken from a
given key epoch). In this case, it may become practical to link
VOPRF sessions for a given user and thus compromise their privacy.
Similarly, if P can publish N public keys to a trusted registry then
P may be able to control presentation of these keys in such a way
that V is retroactively identified by V's key choice across multiple
requests.
9. Applications
This section describes various applications of the VOPRF protocol.
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9.1. Privacy Pass
This VOPRF protocol is used by the Privacy Pass system [PrivacyPass]
to help Tor users bypass CAPTCHA challenges. Their system works as
follows. Client C connects - through Tor - to an edge server E
serving content. Upon receipt, E serves a CAPTCHA to C, who then
solves the CAPTCHA and supplies, in response, n blinded points. E
verifies the CAPTCHA response and, if valid, signs (at most) n
blinded points, which are then returned to C along with a batched
DLEQ proof. C stores the tokens if the batched proof verifies
correctly. When C attempts to connect to E again and is prompted
with a CAPTCHA, C uses one of the unblinded and signed points, or
tokens, to derive a shared symmetric key sk used to MAC the CAPTCHA
challenge. C sends the CAPTCHA, MAC, and token input x to E, who can
use x to derive sk and verify the CAPTCHA MAC. Thus, each token is
used at most once by the system.
The Privacy Pass implementation uses the P-256 instantiation of the
VOPRF protocol. For more details, see [DGSTV18].
9.2. Private Password Checker
In this application, let D be a collection of plaintext passwords
obtained by prover P. For each password p in D, P computes
VOPRF_Eval on H_1(p), where H_1 is as described above, and stores the
result in a separate collection D'. P then publishes D' with Y, its
public key. If a client C wishes to query D' for a password p', it
runs the VOPRF protocol using p as input x to obtain output y. By
construction, y will be the OPRF evaluation of p hashed onto the
curve. C can then search D' for y to determine if there is a match.
Concrete examples of important applications in the password domain
include:
o password-protected storage [JKK14], [JKKX16];
o perfectly-hiding password management [SJKS17];
o password-protected secret-sharing [JKKX17].
9.2.1. Parameter Commitments
For some applications, it may be desirable for P to bind tokens to
certain parameters, e.g., protocol versions, ciphersuites, etc. To
accomplish this, P should use a distinct scalar for each parameter
combination. Upon redemption of a token T from V, P can later verify
that T was generated using the scalar associated with the
corresponding parameters.
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10. Acknowledgements
This document resulted from the work of the Privacy Pass team
[PrivacyPass]. The authors would also like to acknowledge the
helpful conversations with Hugo Krawczyk. Eli-Shaoul Khedouri
provided additional review and comments on key consistency.
11. Normative References
[ChaumBlindSignature]
"Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments", n.d.,
<http://sceweb.sce.uhcl.edu/yang/teaching/
csci5234WebSecurityFall2011/Chaum-blind-signatures.PDF>.
[ChaumPedersen]
"Wallet Databases with Observers", n.d.,
<https://chaum.com/publications/Wallet_Databases.pdf>.
[DECAF] "Decaf, Eliminating cofactors through point compression",
n.d., <https://www.shiftleft.org/papers/decaf/decaf.pdf>.
[DGSTV18] "Privacy Pass, Bypassing Internet Challenges Anonymously",
n.d., <https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/
popets.2018.2018.issue-3/popets-2018-0026/
popets-2018-0026.xml>.
[I-D.irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve]
Scott, S., Sullivan, N., and C. Wood, "Hashing to Elliptic
Curves", draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-03 (work in
progress), March 2019.
[JKK14] "Round-Optimal Password-Protected Secret Sharing and
T-PAKE in the Password-Only model", n.d.,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/650>.
[JKKX16] "Highly-Efficient and Composable Password-Protected Secret
Sharing (Or, How to Protect Your Bitcoin Wallet Online)",
n.d., <https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/144>.
[JKKX17] "TOPPSS: Cost-minimal Password-Protected Secret Sharing
based on Threshold OPRF", n.d.,
<https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/363>.
[NIST] "Keylength - NIST Report on Cryptographic Key Length and
Cryptoperiod (2016)", n.d.,
<https://www.keylength.com/en/4/>.
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[OPAQUE] "The OPAQUE Asymmetric PAKE Protocol", n.d.,
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-krawczyk-cfrg-opaque-01>.
[PrivacyPass]
"Privacy Pass", n.d.,
<https://github.com/privacypass/challenge-bypass-server>.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC5869] Krawczyk, H. and P. Eronen, "HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand
Key Derivation Function (HKDF)", RFC 5869,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5869, May 2010,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5869>.
[RFC7748] Langley, A., Hamburg, M., and S. Turner, "Elliptic Curves
for Security", RFC 7748, DOI 10.17487/RFC7748, January
2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7748>.
[RFC8032] Josefsson, S. and I. Liusvaara, "Edwards-Curve Digital
Signature Algorithm (EdDSA)", RFC 8032,
DOI 10.17487/RFC8032, January 2017,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8032>.
[RISTRETTO]
"The ristretto255 Group", n.d.,
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/
draft-hdevalence-cfrg-ristretto-00>.
[SEC2] Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG), ., "SEC
2: Recommended Elliptic Curve Domain Parameters", n.d.,
<http://www.secg.org/sec2-v2.pdf>.
[SHAKE] "SHA-3 Standard, Permutation-Based Hash and Extendable-
Output Functions", n.d.,
<https://www.nist.gov/publications/sha-3-standard-
permutation-based-hash-and-extendable-output-
functions?pub_id=919061>.
[SJKS17] "SPHINX, A Password Store that Perfectly Hides from
Itself", n.d., <https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/695>.
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Appendix A. Test Vectors
This section includes test vectors for the ECVOPRF-P256-HKDF-SHA256
VOPRF ciphersuite, including batched DLEQ output.
P-256
X: 04b14b08f954f5b6ab1d014b1398f03881d70842acdf06194eb96a6d08186f8cb985c1c5521 \
f4ee19e290745331f7eb89a4053de0673dc8ef14cfe9bf8226c6b31
r: b72265c85b1ba42cfed7caaf00d2ccac0b1a99259ba0dbb5a1fc2941526a6849
M: 046025a41f81a160c648cfe8fdcaa42e5f7da7a71055f8e23f1dc7e4204ab84b705043ba5c7 \
000123e1fd058150a4d3797008f57a8b2537766d9419c7396ba5279
k: f84e197c8b712cdf452d2cff52dec1bd96220ed7b9a6f66ed28c67503ae62133
Z: 043ab5ccb690d844dcb780b2d9e59126d62bc853ba01b2c339ba1c1b78c03e4b6adc5402f77 \
9fc29f639edc138012f0e61960e1784973b37f864e4dc8abbc68e0b
N: 04e8aa6792d859075821e2fba28500d6974ba776fe230ba47ef7e42be1d967654ce776f889e \
e1f374ffa0bce904408aaa4ed8a19c6cc7801022b7848031f4e442a
D: { s: faddfaf6b5d6b4b6357adf856fc1e0044614ebf9dafdb4c6541c1c9e61243c5b,
c: 8b403e170b56c915cc18864b3ab3c2502bd8f5ca25301bc03ab5138343040c7b }
P-256
X: 047e8d567e854e6bdc95727d48b40cbb5569299e0a4e339b6d707b2da3508eb6c238d3d4cb4 \
68afc6ffc82fccbda8051478d1d2c9b21ffdfd628506c873ebb1249
r: f222dfe530fdbfcb02eb851867bfa8a6da1664dfc7cee4a51eb6ff83c901e15e
M: 04e2efdc73747e15e38b7a1bb90fe5e4ef964b3b8dccfda428f85a431420c84efca02f0f09c \
83a8241b44572a059ab49c080a39d0bce2d5d0b44ff5d012b5184e7
k: fb164de0a87e601fd4435c0d7441ff822b5fa5975d0c68035beac05a82c41118
Z: 049d01e1c555bd3324e8ce93a13946b98bdcc765298e6d60808f93c00bdfba2ebf48eef8f28 \
d8c91c903ad6bea3d840f3b9631424a6cc543a0a0e1f2d487192d5b
N: 04723880e480b60b4415ca627585d1715ab5965570d30c94391a8b023f8854ac26f76c1d6ab \
bb38688a5affbcadad50ecbf7c93ef33ddfd735003b5a4b1a21ba14
D: { s: dfdf6ae40d141b61d5b2d72cf39c4a6c88db6ac5b12044a70c212e2bf80255b4,
c: 271979a6b51d5f71719127102621fe250e3235867cfcf8dea749c3e253b81997 }
Batched DLEQ (P256)
M_0: 046025a41f81a160c648cfe8fdcaa42e5f7da7a71055f8e23f1dc7e4204ab84b705043ba5c\
7000123e1fd058150a4d3797008f57a8b2537766d9419c7396ba5279
M_1: 04e2efdc73747e15e38b7a1bb90fe5e4ef964b3b8dccfda428f85a431420c84efca02f0f09\
c83a8241b44572a059ab49c080a39d0bce2d5d0b44ff5d012b5184e7
Z_0: 043ab5ccb690d844dcb780b2d9e59126d62bc853ba01b2c339ba1c1b78c03e4b6adc5402f7\
79fc29f639edc138012f0e61960e1784973b37f864e4dc8abbc68e0b
Z_1: 04647e1ab7946b10c1c1c92dd333e2fc9e93e85fdef5939bf2f376ae859248513e0cd91115\
e48c6852d8dd173956aec7a81401c3f63a133934898d177f2a237eeb
k: f84e197c8b712cdf452d2cff52dec1bd96220ed7b9a6f66ed28c67503ae62133
H_5: HKDF-Expand-SHA256
label: "DLEQ_PROOF"
D: { s: b2123044e633d4721894d573decebc9366869fe3c6b4b79a00311ecfa46c9e34,
c: 3506df9008e60130fcddf86fdb02cbfe4ceb88ff73f66953b1606f6603309862 }
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Authors' Addresses
Alex Davidson
Cloudflare
County Hall
London, SE1 7GP
United Kingdom
Email: adavidson@cloudflare.com
Nick Sullivan
Cloudflare
101 Townsend St
San Francisco
United States of America
Email: nick@cloudflare.com
Christopher A. Wood
Apple Inc.
One Apple Park Way
Cupertino, California 95014
United States of America
Email: cawood@apple.com
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