[Resource Topic] 2023/449: Multidimensional Approximate Agreement with Asynchronous Fallback

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Title:
Multidimensional Approximate Agreement with Asynchronous Fallback

Authors: Diana Ghinea, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Roger Wattenhofer

Abstract:

Multidimensional Approximate Agreement considers a setting of n parties, where each party holds a vector in \mathbb{R}^D as input. The honest parties are required to obtain very close outputs in \mathbb{R}^D that lie inside the convex hull of their inputs.

Existing Multidimensional Approximate Agreement protocols achieve resilience against t_s < n / (D + 1) corruptions under a synchronous network where messages are delivered within some time \Delta, but become completely insecure as soon as a single message is further delayed. On the other hand, asynchronous solutions do not rely on any delay upper bound, but only achieve resilience up to t_a < n / (D + 2) corruptions.

We investigate the feasibility of achieving Multidimensional Approximate Agreement protocols that achieve simultaneously guarantees in both network settings: We want to tolerate t_s corruptions when the network is synchronous, and also tolerate t_a \leq t_s corruptions when the network is asynchronous. We provide a protocol that works as long as (D + 1) \cdot t_s + t_a < n, and matches several existing lower bounds.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/449

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