Secure Multiparty Computation and Secret Sharing

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Brief Description: This book provides information on theoretically secure multiparty computation (MPC) and secret sharing, and the fascinating relationship between the two concepts. Table of Contents: Part I. Secure Multiparty Computation: 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. MPC protocols with passive security; 4. Models; 5. Information theoretic robust MPC protocols; 6. MPC from general linear secret sharing schemes; 7. Cryptographic MPC protocols; 8. Some techniques for efficiency improvements; 9. Applications of MPC; Part II. Secret Sharing: 10. Algebraic preliminaries; 11. Secret sharing; 12. Arithmetic codices; Part III. Back Material.

Contributor Bio:  Cramer, Ronald Ronald Cramer is a Professor of Mathematics at Leiden University and head of the Cryptology Research Group at the Centrum Wiskunde and Informatica, Amsterdam: the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. Contributor Bio:  Nielsen, Jesper Buus Jesper Buus Nielsen is an associate professor in the cryptology group of Aarhus University's computer science department. His primary research interest is generic secure multiparty computation. Contributor Bio:  Damgard, Ivan Bjerre Ivan Bjerre Damgard is a Professor of Computer Science at Aarhus University. He is a fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research. He is also a cofounder of Cryptomathic, a software and consulting company, and cofounder of Partisia, a company doing market design and implementation based on secure MPC.