Paper 2011/560

Randomized Secure Two-Party Computation for Modular Conversion, Zero Test, Comparison, MOD and Exponentiation

Ching-Hua Yu and Bo-Yin Yang

Abstract

When secure arithmetic is required, computation based on secure multiplication ($\MULT$) is much more efficient than computation based on secure boolean circuits. However, a typical application can also require other building blocks, such as comparison, exponentiation and the modulo (MOD) operation. Secure solutions for these functions proposed in the literature rely on bit-decomposition or other bit-oriented methods, which require $O(\ell)$ $\MULT$s for $\ell$-bit inputs. In the absence of a known bit-length independent solution, the complexity of the whole computation is often dominated by these non-arithmetic functions. To resolve the above problem, we start with a general modular conversion, which converts secret shares over distinct moduli. For this, we proposed a probabilistically correct protocol for this with a complexity that is independent of $\ell$. Then, we show that when these non-arithmetic functions are based on secure modular conversions, they can be computed in constant rounds and $O(k)$ $\MULT$s, where $k$ is a parameter for an error rate of $2^{-\Omega(k)}$. To promote our protocols to be actively secure, we apply $O(k)$ basic zero-knowledge proofs, which cost at most $O(k)$ exponentiation computation, $O(1)$ rounds and $O(k(\ell+\kappa))$ communication bits, where $\kappa$ is the security parameter used in the commitment scheme.

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PDF
Category
Applications
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
secure two-party computationrandomized algorithmefficiency
Contact author(s)
chinghua yu @ gmail com
History
2011-11-15: revised
2011-10-17: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2011/560
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2011/560,
      author = {Ching-Hua Yu and Bo-Yin Yang},
      title = {Randomized Secure Two-Party Computation for Modular Conversion, Zero Test, Comparison, MOD and Exponentiation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2011/560},
      year = {2011},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/560}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/560}
}
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