Jason Perry, Lewis University

Abstract

Secure Multi-Party Computation, or MPC, is the study of protocols that allow a group of communicating parties to collaborate to compute a function while keeping their own inputs private. An abundance of published results over the last 30+ years has shown how different security guarantees can be realized for MPC in various adversary models, with varying levels of computational and communication complexity. MPC results seem ripe for application to real-world problems, but adoption has been slow relative to some other cryptographic technologies. Perhaps part of the problem is the difficulty of making sense of all these results. This talk will give an introduction to MPC and describe efforts to produce a systematic classification of MPC protocols that could bring new insights and aid in application.

Based on joint work with Joan Feigenbaum, Debayan Gupta and Rebecca Wright.

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