### Universally Composable Almost-Everywhere Secure Computation

Nishanth Chandran, Pouyan Forghani, Juan Garay, Rafail Ostrovsky, Rutvik Patel, and Vassilis Zikas

##### Abstract

Most existing work on secure multi-party computation (MPC) ignores a key idiosyncrasy of modern communication networks, that there are a limited number of communication paths between any two nodes, many of which might even be corrupted. The problem becomes particularly acute in the information-theoretic setting, where the lack of trusted setups (and the cryptographic primitives they enable) makes communication over sparse networks more challenging. The work by Garay and Ostrovsky [EUROCRYPT'08] on almost-everywhere MPC (AE-MPC), introduced best-possible security'' properties for MPC over such incomplete networks, where necessarily some of the honest parties may be excluded from the computation. In this work, we provide a universally composable definition of almost-everywhere security, which allows us to automatically and accurately capture the guarantees of AE-MPC (as well as AE-communication, the analogous best-possible security'' version of secure communication) in the Universal Composability (UC) framework of Canetti. Our results offer the first simulation-based treatment of this important but under-investigated problem, along with the first simulation-based proof of AE-MPC. To achieve that goal, we state and prove a general composition theorem, which makes precise the level or quality'' of AE-security that is obtained when a protocol's hybrids are replaced with almost-everywhere components.

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Category
Cryptographic protocols
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Secure multi-party computationuniversal composabilityalmost-everywhere secure computationsparse graphssecure message transmission
Contact author(s)
rsp7 @ tamu edu
pouyan forghani @ tamu edu
garay @ tamu edu
History
2022-02-10: last of 2 revisions
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/1398

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021/1398,
author = {Nishanth Chandran and Pouyan Forghani and Juan Garay and Rafail Ostrovsky and Rutvik Patel and Vassilis Zikas},
title = {Universally Composable Almost-Everywhere Secure Computation},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2021/1398},
year = {2021},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1398}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1398}
}

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