[Resource Topic] 2024/243: Towards Achieving Asynchronous MPC with Linear Communication and Optimal Resilience

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Title:
Towards Achieving Asynchronous MPC with Linear Communication and Optimal Resilience

Authors: Vipul Goyal, Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Yifan Song

Abstract:

Secure multi-party computation (MPC) allows a set of n parties to jointly compute a function over their private inputs.
The seminal works of Ben-Or, Canetti and Goldreich [STOC '93] and Ben-Or, Kelmer and Rabin [PODC '94] settled the feasibility of MPC over asynchronous networks. Despite the significant line of work devoted to improving the communication complexity, current protocols with information-theoretic security and optimal resilience t<n/3 communicate \Omega(n^4C) field elements for a circuit with C multiplication gates. In contrast, synchronous MPC protocols with \Omega(nC) communication have long been known.

In this work we make progress towards closing this gap.
We provide a novel MPC protocol that makes black-box use of an asynchronous complete secret-sharing (ACSS) protocol, where the cost per multiplication reduces to the cost of distributing a constant number of sharings via ACSS, improving a linear factor over the state of the art by Choudhury and Patra [IEEE Trans. Inf. Theory '17].

Instantiating ACSS with the protocol by Choudhury and Patra [J. Crypto '23] we achieve an MPC protocol with \mathcal{O}(n^3C) communication. Moreover, with a recent concurrent work achieving ACSS with linear cost per sharing, we achieve an MPC with \mathcal{O}(nC) communication.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/243

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