Paper 2012/405
Secure Computation on Floating Point Numbers
Mehrdad Aliasgari, Marina Blanton, Yihua Zhang, and Aaron Steele
Abstract
Secure computation undeniably received a lot of attention in the recent years, with the shift toward cloud computing offering a new incentive for secure computation and outsourcing. Surprisingly little attention, however, has been paid to computation with non-integer data types. To narrow this gap, in this work we develop efficient solutions for computation with real numbers in floating point representation, as well as more complex operations such as square root, logarithm, and exponentiation. Our techniques are information-theoretically secure, do not use expensive cryptographic techniques, and can be applied to a variety of settings. Our experimental results also show that the techniques exhibit rather fast performance and in some cases outperform operations on integers.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. This work is accepted for publication at NDSS 2013
- Keywords
- Secure multi-party computationfloating pointlogarithmexponentiationsquare root
- Contact author(s)
- maliasga @ nd edu
- History
- 2012-12-10: last of 5 revisions
- 2012-07-24: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2012/405
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/405,
author = {Mehrdad Aliasgari and Marina Blanton and Yihua Zhang and Aaron Steele},
title = {Secure Computation on Floating Point Numbers},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/405},
year = {2012},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/405}
}
