Menu
Home
People
Places
Arts
History
Plants & Animals
Science
Life & Culture
Technology
Reference.org
Oblivious pseudorandom function
open-in-new
<p>An oblivious pseudorandom function (OPRF) is a <a href="/facts/Cryptography/e94PEVau">cryptographic</a> function, similar to a <a href="/facts/HMAC/Qy9WD4V9">keyed-hash function</a>, but with the distinction that in an OPRF <a href="/facts/Secure_two-party_computation/3YeSBIVq">two parties</a> cooperate to <a href="/facts/Secure_multi-party_computation/7xJbbvIo">securely compute</a> a <a href="/facts/Pseudorandom_function_family/Y2PpjPeF">pseudorandom function</a> (PRF). </p>