Polynomial runtime in simulatability definitions

  • Authors:
  • Dennis Hofheinz;Jörn Müller-Quade;Dominique Unruh

  • Affiliations:
  • CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: hofheinz@cwi.nl;IKS, Universität Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany. E-mail: muellerq@ira.uka.de;MMCI, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. E-mail: unruh@mmci.uni-saarland.de

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computer Security - 18th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 18)
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We elaborate on the problem of polynomial runtime in simulatability definitions for multi-party computation. First, the need for a new definition is demonstrated by showing which problems occur with common definitions of polynomial runtime. Then, we give a definition which captures in an intuitive manner what it means for a protocol or an adversary to have polynomial runtime. We show that this notion is suitable for simulatability definitions for multi-party computation. In particular, a composition theorem is shown for this notion.