Crypto 2016: Network Oblivious Transfer

On the first day of CRYPTO 2016, Adam Sealfon presented his work with Ranjit Kumaresan and Srinivasan Raghurama on Network Oblivious Transfer . Oblivious transfer (OT) is a two party protocol in which party $A$ inputs two strings and party $B$ a bit $b$: $B$ receives exactly one of the strings according to his bit and finds out nothing about the other string, while $A$ does not find out which of the two strings $B$ chose. If two parties are able to engage in an OT protocol, we say that there is