Minimal complete primitives for secure multi-party computation Conference Paper uri icon

abstract

  • The study of minimal cryptographic primitives needed to implement secure computation among two or more players is a fundamental question in cryptography. The issue of complete primitives for the case of two players has been thoroughly studied. However, in the multi-party setting, when there are n > 2 players and t of them are corrupted, the question of what are the simplest complete primitives remained open for t n/3. We consider this question, and introduce complete primitives of minimal cardinality for secure multi-party computation. The cardinality issue (number of players accessing the primitive) is essential in settings where the primitives are implemented by some other means, and the simpler the primitive the easier it is to realize it. We show that our primitives are complete and of minimal cardinality possible. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2001.

name of conference

  • Advances in Cryptology - CRYPTO 2001, 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 19-23, 2001, Proceedings

published proceedings

  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

author list (cited authors)

  • Fitzi, M., Garay, J. A., Maurer, U., & Ostrovsky, R.

complete list of authors

  • Fitzi, M||Garay, JA||Maurer, U||Ostrovsky, R

publication date

  • December 2001