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ETH Series in Information
Security and Cryptography
edited by Ueli Maurer
Volume 9
Bartosz Przydatek
Approaches to Efficient and Robust
Cryptographic Protocols
1st
edition/ 1. Auflage 2007, X, 104 pages/Seiten,
€ 65,00. ISBN 3-86628-153-6
The growing
influence of the Internet and other communication networks on our daily lives
shows clearly that the security issues in such networks are of the uttermost
importance. Motivated both by the theoretical questions and by the potential
real-world applications, in this dissertation we study problems of secure
cooperation in a distributed setting.
First we study
the problem of secure multi-party computation, which allows a set of n players to evaluate an agreed function of their inputs
in a secure way, guaranteeing correctness and privacy even when some of the
parties misbehave. We consider this problem in asynchronous networks and we
focus on minimizing the number of bits sent between the parties during the
computation. We propose a multi-party protocol which is optimally resilient and
more efficient than previously known solutions.
Then we turn to
a problem very common in cryptography: it is not clear which computational
assumptions are the best, but when we use a cryptographic system in a real-world
setting, we must choose a concrete implementation based on specific
assumptions. One way of dealing with this problem are robust combiners, which allow to construct systems based on the best assumption, without
being able to tell which assumption is the best one. We generalize the notion
of robust combiners in several ways, and propose constructions of combiners for
various primitives.
Keywords: multi-party computation, asynchronous network,
homomorphic encryption, robust combiner, oblivious transfer, private
information retrieval
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