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In this work, we present novel protocols over rings for semi-honest secure three-party computation (3PC) and malicious four-party computation (4PC) with one corruption. While most existing works focus on improving total communication…

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Quantum voting protocols aim to offer ballot secrecy and publicly verifiable tallies using physical guarantees from quantum mechanics, rather than relying solely on computational hardness. This article surveys whether such quantum voting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Nitin Jha , Abhishek Parakh

In this paper some cryptographic properties of Boolean functions, including weight, balancedness and nonlinearity, are studied, particularly focusing on splitting functions and cubic Boolean functions. Moreover, we present some quantities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Augustine Musukwa , Massimiliano Sala , Marco Zaninelli

Numberlink is a logic puzzle with an objective to connect all pairs of cells with the same number by non-crossing paths in a rectangular grid. In this paper, we propose a physical protocol of zero-knowledge proof for Numberlink using a deck…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

In this paper we study the computational complexity of functions that have efficient card-based protocols. Card-based protocols were proposed by den Boer [EUROCRYPT '89] as a means for secure two-party computation. Our contribution is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Pavel Dvořák , Michal Koucký

We study the complexity of securely evaluating arithmetic circuits over finite rings. This question is motivated by natural secure computation tasks. Focusing mainly on the case of two-party protocols with security against malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-11-08 Yuval Ishai , Manoj Prabhakaran , Amit Sahai

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

In two-party secret sharing scheme, values are typically encoded as unsigned integers $\mathsf{uint}(x)$, whereas real-world applications often require computations on signed real numbers $\mathsf{Real}(x)$. To enable secure evaluation of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Hao Guo , Zhaoqian Liu , Liqiang Peng , Shuaishuai Li , Ximing Fu , Weiran Liu , Lin Qu

In recent years, secure multiparty computation (SMC) advanced from a theoretical technique to a practically applicable technology. Several frameworks were proposed of which some are still actively developed. We perform a first comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Marcel von Maltitz , Georg Carle

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

We study decentralized cryptocurrency protocols in which the participants do not deplete physical scarce resources. Such protocols commonly rely on Proof of Stake, i.e., on mechanisms that extend voting power to the stakeholders of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Iddo Bentov , Ariel Gabizon , Alex Mizrahi

We present and characterize advanced attacks on an ensemble-based quantum token protocol that allows for implementing non-clonable quantum coins. Multiple differently initialized tokens of identically prepared qubit ensembles are combined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Bernd Bauerhenne , Lucas Tsunaki , Jan Thieme , Boris Naydenov , Kilian Singer

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is a fundamental problem in secure distributed computing. An MPC protocol allows a set of $n$ mutually distrusting parties to carry out any joint computation of their private inputs, without disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Ananya Appan , Anirudh Chandramouli , Ashish Choudhury

Since unconditionally secure quantum two-party computations are known to be impossible, most existing quantum private comparison (QPC) protocols adopted a third party. Recently, we proposed a QPC protocol which involves two parties only,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Guang Ping He

A (k,n)-threshold secret-sharing scheme allows for a string to be split into n shares in such a way that any subset of at least k shares suffices to recover the secret string, but such that any subset of at most k-1 shares contains no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Yingkai Ouyang , Si-Hui Tan , Liming Zhao , Joseph F. Fitzsimons

We introduce a new multiparty cryptographic protocol, which we call `entanglement sharing schemes', wherein a dealer retains half of a maximally-entangled bipartite state and encodes the other half into a multipartite state that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-18 Ran Hee Choi , Ben Fortescue , Gilad Gour , Barry C. Sanders

Secure function evaluation is a two-party cryptographic primitive where Bob computes a function of Alice's and his respective inputs, and both hope to keep their inputs private from the other party. It has been proven that perfect (or near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Sarah Osborn , Jamie Sikora

Finding a counterfeit coin with the different weight from a set of visually identical coin using a balance, usually a two-armed balance, known as the balance question, is an intersting and inspiring question. Its variants involve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Fangqi Li

Multipartite entanglement has been widely regarded as key resources in distributed quantum computing, for instance, multi-party cryptography, measurement based quantum computing, quantum algorithms. It also plays a fundamental role in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Nengkun Yu

Multiparty computation (MPC) consists in several parties engaging in joint computation in such a way that each party's input and output remain private to that party. Whereas MPC protocols for specific computations have existed since the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Josep Domingo-Ferrer , Jesús Manjón