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Barrington Plays Cards: The Complexity of Card-based Protocols

Computational Complexity 2020-10-19 v1

Abstract

In this paper we study the computational complexity of functions that have efficient card-based protocols. Card-based protocols were proposed by den Boer [EUROCRYPT '89] as a means for secure two-party computation. Our contribution is two-fold: We classify a large class of protocols with respect to the computational complexity of functions they compute, and we propose other encodings of inputs which require fewer cards than the usual 2-card representation.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2010.08445,
  title  = {Barrington Plays Cards: The Complexity of Card-based Protocols},
  author = {Pavel Dvořák and Michal Koucký},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.08445},
  year   = {2020}
}
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