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Consider the communication efficient secret sharing problem. A dealer wants to share a secret with $n$ parties such that any $k\leq n$ parties can reconstruct the secret and any $z<k$ parties eavesdropping on their shares obtain no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Rawad Bitar , Sidharth Jaggi

Known protocols for secure delegation of quantum computations from a client to a server in an information theoretic setting require quantum communication. In this work, we investigate methods to reduce communication overhead. First, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-25 Abbas Poshtvan , Oleksandra Lapiha , Mina Doosti , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Elham Kashefi

We consider the secret key generation problem when sources are randomly excited by the sender and there is a noiseless public discussion channel. Our setting is thus similar to recent works on channels with action-dependent states where the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Tzu-Han Chou , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Stark C. Draper

This paper studies the problem of information theoretic secure communication when a source has private messages to transmit to $m$ destinations, in the presence of a passive adversary who eavesdrops an unknown set of $k$ edges. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Gaurav Kumar Agarwal , Martina Cardone , Christina Fragouli

Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) can improve the security and privacy of data owners while allowing analysts to perform high quality analytics. Secure aggregation is a secure distributed mechanism to support federated deep learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Timothy Stevens , Joseph Near , Christian Skalka

We establish a one-shot strong converse bound for privacy amplification against quantum side information using trace distance as a security criterion. This strong converse bound implies that in the independent and identical scenario, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Yu-Chen Shen , Li Gao , Hao-Chung Cheng

We consider the secret key agreement problem under the multiterminal source model proposed by Csisz\'ar and Narayan. A single-letter characterization of the secrecy capacity is desired but remains unknown except in the extreme case with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-26 Chung Chan , Manuj Mukherjee , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Qiaoqiao Zhou

In this chapter, we will explore the cloud-outsourced privacy-preserving computation of a controller on encrypted measurements from a (possibly distributed) system, taking into account the challenges introduced by the dynamical nature of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-25 Andreea B. Alexandru , George J. Pappas

We study the rate of change of the multivariate mutual information among a set of random variables when some common randomness is added to or removed from a subset. This is formulated more precisely as two new multiterminal secret key…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Chung Chan , Ali Al-Bashabsheh , Qiaoqiao Zhou

Semi-quantum protocols that allow some of the users to remain classical are proposed for a large class of problems associated with secure communication and secure multiparty computation. Specifically, first time semi-quantum protocols are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-10 Chitra Shukla , Kishore Thapliyal , Anirban Pathak

We consider a non-asymptotic (one-shot) version of the multiterminal secret key agreement problem on a finite linear source model. In this model, the observation of each terminal is a linear function of an underlying random vector composed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Chung Chan , Navin Kashyap , Praneeth Kumar Vippathalla , Qiaoqiao Zhou

The rapid development of cloud computing has probably benefited each of us. However, the privacy risks brought by untrustworthy cloud servers arise the attention of more and more people and legislatures. In the last two decades, plenty of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Wenhao Zhou , Lizhi Xiong , Jian Weng , Neal N. Xiong

Current methods for authentication and key agreement based on public-key cryptography are vulnerable to quantum computing. We propose a novel approach based on artificial intelligence research in which communicating parties are viewed as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ibrahim H. Ahmed , Josiah P. Hanna , Elliot Fosong , Stefano V. Albrecht

This paper introduces quantum multiparty protocols which allow the use of temporary assumptions. We prove that secure quantum multiparty computations are possible if and only if classical multi party computations work. But these strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Mueller-Quade , H. Imai

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows a set of parties to compute a function jointly while keeping their inputs private. Compared with the MPC based on garbled circuits,some recent research results show that MPC based on secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Satsuya Ohata , Koji Nuida

This paper considers a key agreement problem in which two parties aim to agree on a key by exchanging messages in the presence of adversarial tampering. The aim of the adversary is to disrupt the key agreement process, but there are no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-30 Terence Chan , Ning Cai , Alex Grant

This paper studies privacy and secure function evaluation in communication complexity. The focus is on quantum versions of the model and on protocols with only approximate privacy against honest players. We show that the privacy loss (the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Klauck

A two-party key agreement problem with public discussion, known as the source model problem, is considered. By relating key agreement to hypothesis testing, a new coding scheme is developed that yields a sufficient condition to achieve a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Amin Gohari , Onur Günlü , Gerhard Kramer

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

This work investigates the problem of demand privacy against colluding users for shared-link coded caching systems, where no subset of users can learn any information about the demands of the remaining users. The notion of privacy used here…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Qifa Yan , Daniela Tuninetti