Private computation using a PEZ dispenser

  • Authors:
  • József Balogh;János A. Csirik;Yuval Ishai;Eyal Kushilevitz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, Ohio State University;AT&T Labs--Research;Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel;Computer Science Department, Technion, Haifa 32000, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We show how a (big) PEZ dispenser can be used by two or more players to compute a function of their inputs while hiding the values of the inputs from each other. In contrast to traditional approaches for solving this problem, ours does not require any use of randomness.