Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem

Mariya Bessonov; Dima Grigoriev; Vladimir Shpilrain

Paper 2017/1129 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2017/1129 ↗

Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem

Mariya Bessonov

Dima Grigoriev

Vladimir Shpilrain

Abstract

We offer a probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem that gives correct answer with probability (slightly) less than 1 but on the positive side, this solution does not use any one-way functions.

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Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2017-11-27: last updated; 2017-11-27: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2017/1129
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/1129,
      author = {Mariya Bessonov and Dima Grigoriev and Vladimir Shpilrain},
      title = {Probabilistic solution of Yao's millionaires' problem},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/1129},
      year = {2017},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1129}
}