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In this paper, we present an unconditionally secure $N$-party comparison scheme based on Shamir secret sharing, utilizing the binary representation of private inputs to determine the $\max$ without disclosing any private inputs or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian , Mohammad Reza Aref

Collaborative learning enables two or more participants, each with their own training dataset, to collaboratively learn a joint model. It is desirable that the collaboration should not cause the disclosure of either the raw datasets of each…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Yanjun Zhang , Guangdong Bai , Xue Li , Caitlin Curtis , Chen Chen , Ryan K L Ko

We revisit the problem of symmetric private information retrieval (SPIR) in settings where the database replication is modeled by a simple graph. Here, each vertex corresponds to a server, and a message is replicated on two servers if and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Shreya Meel , Sennur Ulukus

In this paper, we study the problem of summation evaluation of secrets. The secrets are distributed over a network of nodes that form a ring graph. Privacy-preserving iterative protocols for computing the sum of the secrets are proposed,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Yang Liu , Qingchen Liu , Xiong Zhang , Shuqi Qin , Xiaoping Lei

In order to both learn and protect sensitive training data, there has been a growing interest in privacy preserving machine learning methods. Differential privacy has emerged as an important measure of privacy. We are interested in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Antoine Barczewski , Amal Mawass , Jan Ramon

With the many benefits of cloud computing, an entity may want to outsource its data and their related analytics tasks to a cloud. When data are sensitive, it is in the interest of the entity to outsource encrypted data to the cloud;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-01-17 Bharath K. Samanthula , Wei Jiang , Elisa Bertino

In this paper, we study the problem of privacy-preserving data sharing, wherein only a subset of the records in a database are sensitive, possibly based on predefined privacy policies. Existing solutions, viz, differential privacy (DP), are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Stelios Doudalis , Ios Kotsogiannis , Samuel Haney , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Sharad Mehrotra

Private Information Retrieval (PIR), despite being well studied, is computationally costly and arduous to scale. We explore lower-cost relaxations of information-theoretic PIR, based on dummy queries, sparse vectors, and compositions with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-04 Raphael R. Toledo , George Danezis , Ian Goldberg

One way to classify private set intersection (PSI) for secure 2-party computation is whether the intersection is (a) revealed to both parties or (b) hidden from both parties while only the computing function of the matched payload is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Jian Du , Tianxi Ji , Jamie Cui , Lei Zhang , Yufei Lu , Pu Duan

We introduce the problem of private computation, comprised of $N$ distributed and non-colluding servers, $K$ independent datasets, and a user who wants to compute a function of the datasets privately, i.e., without revealing which function…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Hua Sun , Syed A. Jafar

The growing development of artificial intelligence based solutions, together with privacy legislation, has driven the rise of the so-called privacy preserving machine learning architectures, such as federated learning. While federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

We propose an efficient framework for enabling secure multi-party numerical computations in a Peer-to-Peer network. This problem arises in a range of applications such as collaborative filtering, distributed computation of trust and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-15 Danny Bickson , Genia Bezman , Danny Dolev , Benny Pinkas

Unlike other industries in which intellectual property is patentable, the financial industry relies on trade secrecy to protect its business processes and methods, which can obscure critical financial risk exposures from regulators and the…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2011-11-28 Emmanuel A. Abbe , Amir E. Khandani , Andrew W. Lo

Secure sum computation of private data inputs is an important component of Secure Multi party Computation (SMC).In this paper we provide a protocol to compute the sum of individual data inputs with zero probability of data leakage. In our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-02-12 Rashid Sheikh , Beerendra Kumar , Durgesh Kumar Mishra

We consider a private distributed multiplication problem involving N computation nodes and T colluding nodes. Shamir's secret sharing algorithm provides perfect information-theoretic privacy, while requiring an honest majority, i.e., N \ge…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Haoyang Hu , Viveck R. Cadambe

We consider the problem of secure distributed matrix multiplication in which a user wishes to compute the product of two matrices with the assistance of honest but curious servers. We show how to construct polynomial schemes for the outer…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Ryann Cartor , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Salim El Rouayheb , Daniel Heinlein , David Karpuk , Alex Sprintson

We present SPARSI, a theoretical framework for partitioning sensitive data across multiple non-colluding adversaries. Most work in privacy-aware data sharing has considered disclosing summaries where the aggregate information about the data…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Theodoros Rekatsinas , Amol Deshpande , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

Outsourcing data into the cloud becomes popular thanks to the pay-as-you-go paradigm. However, such practice raises privacy concerns. The conventional way to achieve data privacy is to encrypt sensitive data before outsourcing. When data…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Somayeh Moghadam , Jérôme Darmont , Gérald Gavin

Privacy-preserving estimation of counts of items in streaming data finds applications in several real-world scenarios including word auto-correction and traffic management applications. Recent works of RAPPOR and Apple's count-mean sketch…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Dinusha Vatsalan , Raghav Bhaskar , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

A critically important component of most signal processing procedures is that of computing the distance between signals. In multi-party processing applications where these signals belong to different parties, this introduces privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Abelino Jimenez , Bhiksha Raj