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Title:
Designing Fully Secure Protocols for Secure Two-Party Computation of Constant-Domain Functions
Authors: Vanesa Daza, Nikolaos Makriyannis
Abstract:In a sense, a two-party protocol achieves fairness if the output from the computation is obtained simultaneously by both parties. A seminal result by Cleve (STOC 1986) states that fairness is impossible, in general. Surprisingly, Gordon et al.~(JACM 2011) showed that there exist interesting functions that are computable with fairness. The two results give rise to a distinction between \emph{fair} functions and \emph{unfair} ones. The question of characterizing these functions has been studied in a sequence of works leading to the complete characterization of (symmetric) Boolean functions by Asharov et al.~(TCC 2015). In this paper, we propose a generic construction of a fully secure (fair) protocol, starting with a constant-round protocol satisfying limited security requirements. Our results introduce new conceptual tools for the analysis of fairness and they apply to arbitrary (constant-domain) functions. As a case study, we consider asymmetric Boolean functions. While the characterization remains open, we believe that our results lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of fairness.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/098
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