Paper 2022/1318 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2022/1318 ↗
General Partially Fair Multi-Party Computation with VDFs
Abstract
Gordon and Katz, in "Partial Fairness in Secure Two-Party Computation", present a protocol for two-party computation with partial fairness which depends on presumptions on the size of the input or output of the functionality. They also show that for some other functionalities, this notion of partial fairness is impossible to achieve. In this work, we get around this impossibility result using verifiable delay functions, a primitive which brings in an assumption on the inability of an adversary to compute a certain function in a specified time. We present a gadget using VDFs which allows for any MPC to be carried out with ≈ 1/R partial fairness, where R is the number of communication rounds.
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- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Cryptographic protocols
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2022-10-08: last updated
- 2022-10-04: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/1318
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/1318,
author = {Bolton Bailey and Andrew Miller and Or Sattath},
title = {General Partially Fair Multi-Party Computation with VDFs},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/1318},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1318}
}