International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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Shin'ichiro Matsuo

Publications

Year
Venue
Title
2022
CRYPTO
log∗-Round Game-Theoretically-Fair Leader Election 📺
Ilan Komargodski Shin’ichiro Matsuo Elaine Shi Ke Wu
It is well-known that in the presence of majority coalitions, strongly fair coin toss is impossible. A line of recent works have shown that by relaxing the fairness notion to game theoretic, we can overcome this classical lower bound. In particular, Chung et al. (CRYPTO'21) showed how to achieve approximately (game-theoretically) fair leader election in the presence of majority coalitions, with round complexity as small as O(log log n) rounds. In this paper, we revisit the round complexity of game-theoretically fair leader election. We construct O(log* n) rounds leader election protocols that achieve (1-o(1))-approximate fairness in the presence of (1-o(1)) n-sized coalitions. Our protocols achieve the same round-fairness trade offs as Chung et al.'s and have the advantage of being conceptually simpler. Finally, we also obtain game-theoretically fair protocols for committee election which might be of independent interest.
2010
PKC