Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem

Mariya Bessonov; Dima Grigoriev; Vladimir Shpilrain

Paper 2017/1129

Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem

Mariya Bessonov, Dima Grigoriev, and Vladimir Shpilrain

Abstract

We offer a probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem that gives correct answer with probability (slightly) less than 1 but on the positive side, this solution does not use any one-way functions.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: millionaires' problem
Contact author(s): shpil @ groups sci ccny cuny edu
History: 2017-11-27: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2017/1129
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/1129,
      author = {Mariya Bessonov and Dima Grigoriev and Vladimir Shpilrain},
      title = {Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/1129},
      year = {2017},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1129}
}