Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2014/128

Efficient Three-Party Computation from Cut-and-Choose

Seung Geol Choi and Jonathan Katz and Alex J. Malozemoff and Vassilis Zikas

Abstract: With relatively few exceptions, the literature on efficient (practical) secure computation has focused on secure two-party computation (2PC). It is, in general, unclear whether the techniques used to construct practical 2PC protocols - in particular, the cut-and-choose approach - can be adapted to the multi-party setting.

In this work we explore the possibility of using cut-and-choose for practical secure three-party computation. The three-party case has been studied in prior work in the semi-honest setting, and is motivated by the observation that real-world deployments of multi-party computation are likely to involve few parties. We propose a constant-round protocol for three-party computation tolerating any number of malicious parties, whose computational cost is essentially only a small constant worse than that of state-of-the-art two-party protocols.

Category / Keywords: cryptographic protocols / secure computation

Original Publication (with major differences): IACR-CRYPTO-2014

Date: received 19 Feb 2014, last revised 27 Jun 2014

Contact author: amaloz at cs umd edu

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Note: - Corrected computation/communication costs. - Cleaned up some writing. - Updated motivation for 3PC.

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Short URL: ia.cr/2014/128

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