Paper 2025/1831 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2025/1831 ↗

Authenticated Garbling with Tensor Gates

Abstract

Authenticated garbling, introduced by Wang et al., CCS'17, is a leading paradigm for achieving constant-round maliciously-secure 2PC. In this work, we upgrade authenticated garbling to efficiently support tensor gates (introduced in the context of semi-honest garbling by Heath et al., CCS'21) using the one-hot garbling technique. Our maliciously-secure garbled tensor gate computes $\boldsymbol {x}\otimes \boldsymbol{y}$ for $\boldsymbol{x}\in \{0,1\}^n,\boldsymbol{y} \in \{0,1\}^m$ with $O(n+m)\kappa + O(nm)$ bits of communication, where $\kappa$ is the computational security parameter and $n,m$ are logarithmic in $\kappa$. This improves the best prior constant-round maliciously secure approach, which incurs $O(nm)\kappa$ communication. Our protocol is concretely efficient and improves over state-of-the-art for applications including integer multiplication, matrix multiplication, and more. We benchmark the online phase of our protocol and observe a $5.41\times$ improvement in communication and $3.35\times$ improvement in wall clock time when computing a $128\times 128$ bit tensor product.