Paper 2012/433

Impossibility Results for Static Input Secure Computation

Sanjam Garg, Abishek Kumarasubramanian, Rafail Ostrovsky, and Ivan Visconti

Abstract

Consider a setting of two mutually distrustful parties Alice and Bob who want to securely evaluate some function on pre­-specified inputs. The well studied notion of two­-party secure computation allows them to do so in the stand­alone setting. Consider a deterministic function (e.g., 1­-out­-of­-2 bit OT) that Alice and Bob can not evaluate trivially and which allows only Bob to receive the output. We show that Alice and Bob can not securely compute any such function in the concurrent setting even when their inputs are pre­-specified. Our impossibility result also extends to all deterministic functions in which both Alice and Bob get the same output. Our results have implications in the bounded­-concurrent setting as well.

Note: A few minor edits and acknowledgements.

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PDF
Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Published elsewhere. CRYPTO 2012
Keywords
ImpossibilityStatic Input Concurrent Self­-Composition
Contact author(s)
abishekk @ gmail com
History
2012-09-12: last of 2 revisions
2012-08-05: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/433
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/433,
      author = {Sanjam Garg and Abishek Kumarasubramanian and Rafail Ostrovsky and Ivan Visconti},
      title = {Impossibility Results for Static Input Secure Computation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/433},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/433}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/433}
}
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