Applications of secure multiparty computation / / edited by Peeter Laud and Liina Kamm.

• Superior document: Cryptology and Information Security Series, Volume 13
• Author: L. Kamm (ed.)
• TeilnehmendeR: Laud, Peeter,; Kamm, Liina,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, [The Netherlands] : : IOS Press,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cryptology and information security series ; Volume 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (254 pages) :; illustrations.

We generate and gather a lot of data about ourselves and others, some of it highly confidential. The collection, storage and use of this data is strictly regulated by laws, but restricting the use of data often limits the benefits which could be obtained from its analysis. Secure multi-party computation (SMC), a cryptographic technology, makes it possible to execute specific programs on confidential data while ensuring that no other sensitive information from the data is leaked. SMC has been the subject of academic study for more than 30 years, but first attempts to use it for actual computations in the early 2000s – although theoretically efficient – were initially not practicable. However, improvements in the situation have made possible the secure solving of even relatively large computational tasks. This book describes how many different computational tasks can be solved securely, yet efficiently. It describes how protocols can be combined to larger applications, and how the security-efficiency trade-offs of different components of an SMC application should be chosen. Many of the results described in this book were achieved as part of the project Usable and Efficient Secure Multi-party Computation (UaESMC), which was funded by the European Commission. The book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the secure analysis of confidential data.

Table of Contents

Title Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Basic Constructions of Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 2. Stateful Abstractions of Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 3. Social Need for Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 4. Statistical Analysis Methods Using Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 5. Achieving Optimal Utility for Distributed Differential Privacy Using Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 6. Oblivious Array Access for Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 7. Business Process Engineering and Secure Multiparty Computation -- Chapter 8. Mechanism Design and Strong Truthfulness -- Chapter 9. Verifiable Computation in Multiparty Protocols with Honest Majority -- Chapter 10. Universally Verifiable Outsourcing and Application to Linear Programming -- Chapter 11. Transformation-Based Computation and Impossibility Results -- Chapter 12. Practical Applications of Secure Multiparty Computation -- Author Index.