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October 25, Tuesday
12:00 – 13:30

Secure Two-Party Computation with Low Communication
Computer Science seminar
Lecturer : Carmit Hazay
Lecturer homepage : http://cs.au.dk/~carmit/
Affiliation : Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark
Location : 202/37
Host : Dr. Kobbi Nissim
We propose a 2-party UC-secure computation protocol that can compute any function securely. The protocol requires only two messages, communication that is poly-logarithmic in the size of the circuit description of the function, and the workload for one of the parties is also only poly-logarithmic in the size of the circuit. This implies, for instance, delegatable computation that requires no expensive off-line phase and remains secure even if the server learns whether the client accepts its results. To achieve this, we define a notion of extractable hash functions, propose an instantiation based on the knowledge of exponent in an RSA group, and build succinct zero-knowledge arguments in the CRS model.