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Today, with the development of blockchain and Internet of Things technologies, we need authentication protocols and key exchanges to communicate with these different technologies. Symmetric and asymmetric encryption methods are used to…

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Privacy-preserving technologies have introduced a paradigm shift that allows for realizable secure computing in real-world systems. The significant barrier to the practical adoption of these primitives is the computational and communication…

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This paper considers the problem of covert communication with mismatched decoding, in which a sender wishes to reliably communicate with a receiver whose decoder is fixed and possibly sub-optimal, and simultaneously to ensure that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Qiaosheng Zhang , Vincent Y. F. Tan

In this paper, we consider a secure multi-party computation problem (MPC), where the goal is to offload the computation of an arbitrary polynomial function of some massive private matrices (inputs) to a cluster of workers. The workers are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Hanzaleh Akbari Nodehi , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali

By far the most fruitful technique for showing lower bounds for the CONGEST model is reductions to two-party communication complexity. This technique has yielded nearly tight results for various fundamental problems such as distance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Yuval Efron , Ofer Grossman , Seri Khoury

Key-agreement protocols whose security is proven in the random oracle model are an important alternative to protocols based on public-key cryptography. In the random oracle model, the parties and the eavesdropper have access to a shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Iftach Haitner , Noam Mazor , Rotem Oshman , Omer Reingold , Amir Yehudayoff

In this paper, we characterize the fundamental limits of a communication system with three users (i.e., three transmitters) and a single receiver where communication from two covert users must remain undetectable to an external warden. Our…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Abdelaziz Bounhar , Mireille Sarkiss , Michèle Wigger

A fundamental question that has been studied in cryptography and in information theory is whether two parties can communicate confidentially using exclusively an open channel. We consider the model in which the two parties hold inputs that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Marius Zimand

Imagine a group of citizens willing to collectively contribute their personal data for the common good to produce socially useful information, resulting from data analytics or machine learning computations. Sharing raw personal data with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Riad Ladjel , Nicolas Anciaux , Aurélien Bellet , Guillaume Scerri

Population protocols are a fundamental model in distributed computing, where many nodes with bounded memory and computational power have random pairwise interactions over time. This model has been studied in a rich body of literature aiming…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Simina Branzei , Yuval Peres

In this survey, we will explore the interaction between secure multiparty computation and the area of machine learning. Recent advances in secure multiparty computation (MPC) have significantly improved its applicability in the realm of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Taobo Liao , Taoran Li , Prathamesh Nadkarni

We show how to efficiently simulate the sending of a message M to a receiver who has partial information about the message, so that the expected number of bits communicated in the simulation is close to the amount of additional information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-06-21 Mark Braverman , Anup Rao

In communication complexity, a number of distant parties have the task of calculating a distributed function of their inputs, while minimizing the amount of communication between them. It is known that with quantum resources, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-12 Philippe Allard Guérin , Adrien Feix , Mateus Araújo , Časlav Brukner

We prove a lower bound on the information leakage of any classical protocol computing the equality function in the simultaneous message passing (SMP) model. Our bound is valid in the finite length regime and is strong enough to demonstrate…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-07-27 Juan Miguel Arrazola , Dave Touchette

We consider the problem of communication over a three user discrete memoryless interference channel ($3-$IC). The current known coding techniques for communicating over an arbitrary $3-$IC are based on message splitting, superposition…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Arun Padakandla , Aria G. Sahebi , S. Sandeep Pradhan

We consider implementations of a bipartite unitary on many pairs of unknown input states by local operation and classical communication assisted by shared entanglement. We investigate to what extent the entanglement cost and the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-21 Eyuri Wakakuwa , Mio Murao

In distributed optimization, multiple parties collaborate to find an optimal solution to a problem. Privacy-preserving distributed optimization uses techniques, such as secure multi-party computation (MPC), to protect the private inputs of…

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This thesis is concerned with the design of distributed algorithms for solving optimization problems. We consider networks where each node has exclusive access to a cost function, and design algorithms that make all nodes cooperate to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-03 João F. C. Mota

The paper presents bounds on the achievable rates and the decoding complexity of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. It is assumed that the communication of these codes takes place over statistically independent parallel channels where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Igal Sason , Gil Wiechman

We study the fundamental limits to communication-efficient distributed methods for convex learning and optimization, under different assumptions on the information available to individual machines, and the types of functions considered. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-29 Yossi Arjevani , Ohad Shamir