BSOT: Bandwidth-saving oblivious transfer protocol with confidential computing

Abstract

Abstract Oblivious transfer is a private preserving algorithm for querying sensitive information without known by data owner. The disadvantage of this scheme is that the data owner needs to send amount of redundant data to puzzle the intended information, which will cause the waste of bandwidth. This paper introduces BSOT, a bandwidth-saving oblivious transfer protocol which uses query agent in confidential computing environment in the data source side to reduce bandwidth consumption. In this paper BSOT protocol is defined in CBOR format. Compared to the traditional OT method, this approach could push all the redundant data flow inside the data source instead of transferring by network, and could also restrict the private data from unnecessary leakage.