Paper 2018/450

From Keys to Databases -- Real-World Applications of Secure Multi-Party Computation

David W. Archer and Dan Bogdanov and Liina Kamm and Y. Lindell and Kurt Nielsen and Jakob Illeborg Pagter and Nigel P. Smart and Rebecca N. Wright

Abstract

We discuss the widely increasing range of applications of a cryptographic technique called Multi-Party Computation. For many decades this was perceived to be of purely theoretical interest, but now it has started to find application in a number of use cases. We highly in this paper a number of these, ranging from securing small high value items such as cryptographic keys, through to securing an entire database.

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