Upper bounds on the communication complexity of optimally resilient cryptographic multiparty computation

  • Authors:
  • Martin Hirt;Jesper Buus Nielsen

  • Affiliations:
  • Deptartment of Computer Science, ETH Zurich;Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus

  • Venue:
  • ASIACRYPT'05 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We give improved upper bounds on the communication complexity of optimally-resilient secure multiparty computation in the cryptographic model. We consider evaluating an n-party randomized function and show that if f can be computed by a circuit of size c, then $\mathcal{O}(cn^2\kappa)$ is an upper bound for active security with optimal resilience t n/2 and security parameter κ. This improves on the communication complexity of previous protocols by a factor of at least n. This improvement comes from the fact that in the new protocol, only $\mathcal{O}(n)$ messages (of size $\mathcal{O}(\kappa)$ each) are broadcast during the whole protocol execution, in contrast to previous protocols which require at least $\mathcal{O}(n)$ broadcasts per gate. Furthermore, we improve the upper bound on the communication complexity of passive secure multiparty computation with resilience tn from $\mathcal{O}(cn^2\kappa)$ to $\mathcal{O}(cn\kappa)$. This improvement is mainly due to a simple observation.