We present several different constructions of \apsm\ protocols from standard PSM protocols. These constructions imply, in particular, that efficient information-theoretic \apsm\ protocols exist for NC1 and different classes of log-space computation, and efficient computationally-secure \apsm\ protocols for polynomial-time computable functions can be based on a one-way function. As an application, we obtain an information-theoretic implementation of {\em order-revealing encryption} whose security holds for two messages.
We also consider the case where the actual number of participating parties $t$ may be larger than the minimal $k$ for which the protocol is designed to work. In this case, it is unavoidable that the output party learns the output corresponding to each subset of $k$ out of the $t$ participants. Therefore, a ``best possible security'' notion, requiring that this will be the {\em only} information that the output party learns, is needed. We present connections between this notion and the previously studied notion of {\em $t$-robust PSM} (also known as ``non-interactive MPC''). We show that constructions in this setting for even simple functions (like AND or threshold) can be translated into non-trivial instances of program obfuscation (such as {\em point function obfuscation} and {\em fuzzy point function obfuscation}, respectively). We view these results as a negative indication that protocols with ``best possible security'' are impossible to realize efficiently in the information-theoretic setting or require strong assumptions in the computational setting.
Category / Keywords: Secure Computation, Information-Theoretic Security, Obfuscation Original Publication (in the same form): IACR-EUROCRYPT-2017 Date: received 15 Feb 2017 Contact author: amos beimel at gmail com, yuvali at cs technion ac il, eyalk at cs technion ac il Available format(s): PDF | BibTeX Citation Version: 20170220:150215 (All versions of this report) Short URL: ia.cr/2017/147