A Zero-One Law for Secure Multi-Party Computation with Ternary Outputs (full version)

Gunnar Kreitz

Paper 2011/002

A Zero-One Law for Secure Multi-Party Computation with Ternary Outputs (full version)

Gunnar Kreitz

Abstract

There are protocols to privately evaluate any function in the honest-but-curious setting assuming that the honest nodes are in majority. For some specific functions, protocols are known which remain secure even without an honest majority. The seminal work by Chor and Kushilevitz [CK91] gave a complete characterization of Boolean functions, showing that each Boolean function either requires an honest majority, or is such that it can be privately evaluated regardless of the number of colluding nodes. The problem of discovering the threshold for secure evaluation of more general functions remains an open problem. Towards a resolution, we provide a complete characterization of the security threshold for functions with three different outputs. Surprisingly, the zero-one law for Boolean functions extends to Z_3, meaning that each function with range Z_3 either requires honest majority or tolerates up to colluding nodes.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Published elsewhere. This is the full version of a paper accepted for publication at TCC 2011
Contact author(s): gkreitz @ kth se
History: 2011-01-05: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2011/002
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/002,
      author = {Gunnar Kreitz},
      title = {A Zero-One Law for Secure Multi-Party Computation with Ternary Outputs (full version)},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2011/002},
      year = {2011},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/002}
}