[Resource Topic] 2023/1934: More efficient comparison protocols for MPC

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Title:
More efficient comparison protocols for MPC

Authors: Wicher Malten, Mehmet Ugurbil, Miguel de Vega

Abstract:

In 1982, Yao introduced the problem of comparing two private values, thereby launching the study of protocols for secure multi-party computation (MPC). Since then, comparison protocols have undergone extensive study and found widespread applications.

We survey state-of-the-art comparison protocols for an arbitrary number of parties, decompose them into smaller primitives and analyse their communication complexity under the usual assumption that the underlying MPC protocol does preprocessing and computes linear operations without communication. We then develop two new comparison protocols and explain why they are faster than similar protocols, including those that are commonly used in practice: they reduce the number of online multiplications, without increasing preprocessing or round complexity. More concretely, online bandwidth is reduced by more than half for the standard comparison protocols whose round complexity is logarithmic in the bit-length, whereas for constant round comparison protocols the reduction is two-thirds.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1934

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