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Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is an important enabling technology for data privacy in modern distributed applications. We develop a new type theory to automatically enforce correctness,confidentiality, and integrity properties of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Christian Skalka , Joseph P. Near

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is a fundamental tool for building high-performance computing (HPC) applications, enabling efficient communication across distributed systems. Despite its widespread adoption, MPI's low-level interface…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Nafees Iqbal , Jed Brown

A multiparty session formalises a set of concurrent communicating participants. We propose a type system for multiparty sessions where some communications between participants can be ignored. This allows us to type some sessions with global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

In this paper, we design secure multi-party computation (MPC) protocols in the asynchronous communication setting with optimal resilience. Our protocols are secure against a computationally-unbounded malicious adversary, characterized by an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

Session types provide a principled approach to typed communication protocols that guarantee type safety and protocol fidelity. Formalizations of session-typed communication are typically based on process calculi, concurrent lambda calculi,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Hannes Saffrich , Peter Thiemann

Context-free session types provide a typing discipline for recursive structured communication protocols on bidirectional channels. They overcome the restriction of regular session type systems to tail recursive protocols. This extension…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Bernardo Almeida , Andreia Mordido , Peter Thiemann , Vasco T. Vasconcelos

We present an asynchronous calculus for multiparty sessions with mixed choice, which extends the Simple MultiParty Session framework in order to support nondeterministic choices with both input and output prefixes. Global types -- equipped…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Franco Barbanera , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini

Multi-party private set union (MPSU) protocol enables $m$ $(m > 2)$ parties, each holding a set, to collectively compute the union of their sets without revealing any additional information to other parties. There are two main categories of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Minglang Dong , Yu Chen , Cong Zhang , Yujie Bai

We propose the Automata-based Multiparty Protocols framework (AMP) for top-down protocol development. The framework features a new very general formalism for global protocol specifications called Protocol State Machines (PSMs),…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Felix Stutz , Emanuele D'Osualdo

Session types using affinity and exception handling mechanisms have been developed to ensure the communication safety of protocols implemented in concurrent and distributed programming languages. Nevertheless, current affine session types…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ping Hou , Nicolas Lagaillardie , Nobuko Yoshida

Multiparty private set intersection (MPSI) allows multiple participants to compute the intersection of their locally owned data sets without revealing them. MPSI protocols can be categorized based on the network topology of nodes, with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Xinyu Feng , Yukun Wang , Cong Li , Wu Xin , Ming Yao , Dian Zhang , Wanwan Wang , Hao He

Multiparty session typing (MPST) is a formal method to make concurrent programming simpler. The idea is to use type checking to automatically prove safety (protocol compliance) and liveness (communication deadlock freedom) of…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Sung-Shik Jongmans

The Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de facto standard message-passing infrastructure for developing parallel applications. Two decades after the first version of the library specification, MPI-based applications are nowadays…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-12-11 Eduardo R. B. Marques , Francisco Martins , Vasco T. Vasconcelos , Nicholas Ng , Nuno Martins

Session types guarantee that message-passing processes adhere to predefined communication protocols. Prior work on session types has focused on deterministic languages but many message-passing systems, such as Markov chains and randomized…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Ankush Das , Di Wang , Jan Hoffmann

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) techniques enable multiple parties to compute joint functions over their private data without sharing that data with other parties, typically by employing powerful cryptographic protocols to protect…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Qianchuan Ye , Benjamin Delaware

We strive to use session type technology to prove behavioural properties of fault-tolerant distributed algorithms. Session types are designed to abstractly capture the structure of (even multi-party) communication protocols. The goal of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Manuel Adameit , Kirstin Peters , Uwe Nestmann

Message passing is a fundamental element in software development, ranging from concurrent and mobile computing to distributed services, but it suffers from communication errors such as deadlocks. Session types are a typing discipline for…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Zekun Ji , Shuling Wang , Xiong Xu

We present initial results on a comprehensive model of structured communications, in which self- adaptation and security concerns are jointly addressed. More specifically, we propose a model of self-adaptive, multiparty communications with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Jorge A. Pérez

Multiparty session calculi have been recently equipped with security requirements, in order to guarantee properties such as access control and leak freedom. However, the proposed security requirements seem to be overly restrictive in some…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Ilaria Castellani , Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini , Ugo de'Liguoro

We present a multiparty session type (MST) framework with asynchronous mixed choice (MC). We propose a core construct for MC that allows transient inconsistencies in protocol state between distributed participants, but ensures all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Laura Bocchi , Raymond Hu , Adriana Laura Voinea , Simon Thompson