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Preserving the privacy of individual databases when carrying out statistical calculations has a long history in statistics and had been the focus of much recent attention in machine learning In this paper, we present a protocol for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-01 Rob Hall , Yuval Nardi , Stephen Fienberg

In this paper, we propose a secure two-party computation protocol for dynamic controllers using a secret sharing scheme. The proposed protocol realizes outsourcing of controller computation to two servers, while controller parameters,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Kaoru Teranishi , Takashi Tanaka

In this work, we present novel protocols over rings for semi-honest secure three-party computation (3PC) and malicious four-party computation (4PC) with one corruption. While most existing works focus on improving total communication…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Christopher Harth-Kitzerow , Ajith Suresh , Yongqin Wang , Hossein Yalame , Georg Carle , Murali Annavaram

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a broad cryptographic concept that can be adopted for privacy-preserving computation. With MPC, a number of parties can collaboratively compute a function, without revealing the actual input or output…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Zhou Ni , Rujia Wang

An efficient paradigm for multi-party computation (MPC) are protocols structured around access to shared pre-processed computational resources. In this model, certain forms of correlated randomness are distributed to the participants prior…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-16 Maxwell Gold , Eric Chitambar

We initiate the study of two-party cryptographic primitives with unconditional security, assuming that the adversary's quantum memory is of bounded size. We show that oblivious transfer and bit commitment can be implemented in this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Damgaard , Serge Fehr , Louis Salvail , Christian Schaffner

Central cryptographic functionalities such as encryption, authentication, or secure two-party computation cannot be realized in an information-theoretically secure way from scratch. This serves as a motivation to study what (possibly weak)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 Severin Winkler , Juerg Wullschleger , Stefan Wolf

Distributed quantum computing is a promising computational paradigm for performing computations that are beyond the reach of individual quantum devices. Privacy in distributed quantum computing is critical for maintaining confidentiality…

It had been widely claimed that quantum mechanics can protect private information during public decision in for example the so-called two-party secure computation. If this were the case, quantum smart-cards could prevent fake teller…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Hoi-Kwong Lo

The Universal Composability model (UC) by Canetti (FOCS 2001) allows for secure composition of arbitrary protocols. We present a quantum version of the UC model which enjoys the same compositionality guarantees. We prove that in this model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Dominique Unruh

A growing framework of legal and ethical requirements limit scientific and commercial evalua-tion of personal data. Typically, pseudonymization, encryption, or methods of distributed com-puting try to protect individual privacy. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Nikolaus von Bomhard , Bernd Ahlborn , Catherine Mason , Ulrich Mansmann

Two party differential privacy allows two parties who do not trust each other, to come together and perform a joint analysis on their data whilst maintaining individual-level privacy. We show that any efficient, computationally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Vipul Arora , Eldon Chung , Zeyong Li , Thomas Tan

For population studies or for the training of complex machine learning models, it is often required to gather data from different actors. In these applications, summation is an important primitive: for computing means, counts or mini-batch…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Valentin Hartmann , Robert West

Federated knowledge discovery and data mining are challenged to assess the trustworthiness of data originating from autonomous sources while protecting confidentiality and privacy. Truth-finding algorithms help corroborate data from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Angelo Saadeh , Pierre Senellart , Stéphane Bressan

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a fundamental problem in secure distributed computing. An MPC protocol allows a set of $n$ mutually distrusting parties to carry out any joint computation of their private inputs, without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

This paper considers distributed computing on an anonymous quantum network, a network in which no party has a unique identifier and quantum communication and computation are available. It is proved that the leader election problem can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Hirotada Kobayashi , Keiji Matsumoto , Seiichiro Tani

Bit commitment is a fundamental cryptographic task that guarantees a secure commitment between two mutually mistrustful parties and is a building block for many cryptographic primitives, including coin tossing, zero-knowledge proofs,…

Secure multiparty computation enables collaborative computations across multiple users while preserving individual privacy, which has a wide range of applications in finance, machine learning and healthcare. Secure multiparty computation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-08 Kai-Yi Zhang , An-Jing Huang , Kun Tu , Ming-Han Li , Chi Zhang , Wei Qi , Ya-Dong Wu , Yu Yu

Secret sharing and multiparty computation (also called "secure function evaluation") are fundamental primitives in modern cryptography, allowing a group of mutually distrustful players to perform correct, distributed computations under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Michael Ben-Or , Claude Crépeau , Daniel Gottesman , Avinatan Hassidim , Adam Smith

We present three voting protocols with unconditional privacy and information-theoretic correctness, without assuming any bound on the number of corrupt voters or voting authorities. All protocols have polynomial complexity and require…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-12 Anne Broadbent , Alain Tapp