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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

The process of state preparation, its transmission and subsequent measurement can be classically simulated through the communication of some amount of classical information. Recently, we proved that the minimal communication cost is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Alberto Montina , Stefan Wolf

We consider information theoretic secret key agreement and secure function computation by multiple parties observing correlated data, with access to an interactive public communication channel. Our main result is an upper bound on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Himanshu Tyagi , Shun Watanabe

The emergence of cloud computing provides a new computing paradigm for users -- massive and complex computing tasks can be outsourced to cloud servers. However, the privacy issues also follow. Fully homomorphic encryption shows great…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Lizhi Xiong , Wenhao Zhou , Zhihua Xia , Qi Gu , Jian Weng

We establish the randomized distributed function computation (RDFC) framework, in which a sender transmits just enough information for a receiver to generate a randomized function of the input data. Describing RDFC as a form of semantic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Onur Günlü

The application of secure multiparty computation (MPC) in machine learning, especially privacy-preserving neural network training, has attracted tremendous attention from the research community in recent years. MPC enables several data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Ziyao Liu , Ivan Tjuawinata , Chaoping Xing , Kwok-Yan Lam

Multi-Party Quantum Computation (MPQC) has attracted a lot of attention as a potential killer-app for quantum networks through it's ability to preserve privacy and integrity of the highly valuable computations they would enable.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

In secure multi-party computation $n$ parties jointly evaluate an $n$-variate function $f$ in the presence of an adversary which can corrupt up till $t$ parties. Almost all the works that have appeared in the literature so far assume the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-05-28 Shailesh Vaya

In this paper, we present a very important primitive called Information Checking Protocol (ICP) which plays an important role in constructing statistical Verifiable Secret Sharing (VSS) and Weak Secret Sharing (WSS) protocols. Informally,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Arpita Patra , C. Pandu Rangan

Secure multi-party computing, also called "secure function evaluation", has been extensively studied in classical cryptography. We consider the extension of this task to computation with quantum inputs and circuits. Our protocols are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Claude Crepeau , Daniel Gottesman , Adam Smith

We study common randomness where two parties have access to i.i.d. samples from a known random source, and wish to generate a shared random key using limited (or no) communication with the largest possible probability of agreement. This…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Badih Ghazi , T. S. Jayram

The concrete efficiency of secure computation has been the focus of many recent works. In this work, we present concretely-efficient protocols for secure $3$-party computation (3PC) over a ring of integers modulo $2^{\ell}$ tolerating one…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Harsh Chaudhari , Ashish Choudhury , Arpita Patra , Ajith Suresh

In this paper, we investigate function computation problems under different secure conditions over a network with multiple source nodes and a single sink node which desires a function of all source messages without error. A wiretapper has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Min Xu , Gennian Ge , Minqian Liu

Distributed linearly separable computation, where a user asks some distributed servers to compute a linearly separable function, was recently formulated by the same authors and aims to alleviate the bottlenecks of stragglers and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Kai Wan , Hua Sun , Mingyue Ji , Giuseppe Caire

Large data sets often require performing distributed statistical estimation, with a full data set split across multiple machines and limited communication between machines. To study such scenarios, we define and study some refinements of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-24 John C. Duchi , Michael I. Jordan , Martin J. Wainwright , Yuchen Zhang

We suggest two new methodologies for the design of efficient secure protocols, that differ with respect to their underlying computational models. In one methodology we utilize the communication complexity tree (or branching for f and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Moni Naor , Kobbi Nissim

In cryptography, secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols allow participants to compute a function jointly while keeping their inputs private. Recent breakthroughs are bringing MPC into practice, solving fundamental challenges for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-01 David Butler , David Aspinall , Adria Gascon

In this work, we consider the problem of secure multi-party computation (MPC), consisting of $\Gamma$ sources, each has access to a large private matrix, $N$ processing nodes or workers, and one data collector or master. The master is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mohammad Reza Aref

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

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a general cryptographic technique that allows distrusting parties to compute a function of their individual inputs, while only revealing the output of the function. It has found applications in areas…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Helene Haagh , Aleksandr Karbyshev , Sabine Oechsner , Bas Spitters , Pierre-Yves Strub