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### Paper: Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings

Authors: Ronald Cramer Serge Fehr Yuval Ishai Eyal Kushilevitz URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/030 Search ePrint Search Google Secure multi-party computation (MPC) is an active research area, and a wide range of literature can be found nowadays suggesting improvements and generalizations of existing protocols in various directions. However, all current techniques for secure MPC apply to functions that are represented by (boolean or arithmetic) circuits over finite {\em fields}. We are motivated by two limitations of these techniques: {\sc Generality.} Existing protocols do not apply to computation over more general algebraic structures (except via a brute-force simulation of computation in these structures). {\sc Efficiency.} The best known {\em constant-round} protocols do not efficiently scale even to the case of large finite fields. Our contribution goes in these two directions. First, we propose a basis for unconditionally secure MPC over an arbitrary finite {\em ring}, an algebraic object with a much less nice structure than a field, and obtain efficient MPC protocols requiring only a {\em black-box access} to the ring operations and to random ring elements. Second, we extend these results to the constant-round setting, and suggest efficiency improvements that are relevant also for the important special case of fields. We demonstrate the usefulness of the above results by presenting a novel application of MPC over (non-field) rings to the round-efficient secure computation of the maximum function.
##### BibTeX
@misc{eprint-2003-11748,
title={Efficient Multi-Party Computation over Rings},
booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
keywords={cryptographic protocols / mutli-party computation, black-box rings, constant-round protocols},
url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2003/030},
note={This is an extended version of a paper that appeared in Eurocrypt '03. fehr@brics.dk 12095 received 12 Feb 2003},
author={Ronald Cramer and Serge Fehr and Yuval  Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz},
year=2003
}