TY - JOUR
T1 - A communication-privacy tradeoff for modular addition
AU - Chor, Benny
AU - Kushilevitz, Eyal
N1 - Funding Information:
Correspondence to: B. Chor, Department of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel. * Research supported by US-Israel BSF Grant 88-00282. Email: [email protected]. * * Research supported by ONR-N0001491-J-1981 CCR-90-07677. Email: [email protected].
PY - 1993/3/22
Y1 - 1993/3/22
N2 - We consider the following problem: A set of n parties, each holding an input value xi∈{0, 1,...,m-1}, wishes to distributively compute the sum of their input values modulo the integer m, (i.e, ∑ni=1xi mod m). The parties wish to compute this sum t-privately. That is, in a way that no coalition of size at most t can infer any additional information, other than what follows from their input values and the computed sum. We present an oblivious protocol which computes the sum t-privately, using n·⌈(t+1)/2⌉ messages. This protocol requires fewer messages than the known private protocols for modular addition. Then, we show that this protocol is in a sense optimal, by proving a tight lower bound of ⌈n·(t+1)/2⌉ messages for any oblivious protocol that computes the sum t-privately.
AB - We consider the following problem: A set of n parties, each holding an input value xi∈{0, 1,...,m-1}, wishes to distributively compute the sum of their input values modulo the integer m, (i.e, ∑ni=1xi mod m). The parties wish to compute this sum t-privately. That is, in a way that no coalition of size at most t can infer any additional information, other than what follows from their input values and the computed sum. We present an oblivious protocol which computes the sum t-privately, using n·⌈(t+1)/2⌉ messages. This protocol requires fewer messages than the known private protocols for modular addition. Then, we show that this protocol is in a sense optimal, by proving a tight lower bound of ⌈n·(t+1)/2⌉ messages for any oblivious protocol that computes the sum t-privately.
KW - Distributed computing
KW - message complexity
KW - modular sum
KW - private computation
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U2 - 10.1016/0020-0190(93)90120-X
DO - 10.1016/0020-0190(93)90120-X
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AN - SCOPUS:0040655149
SN - 0020-0190
VL - 45
SP - 205
EP - 210
JO - Information Processing Letters
JF - Information Processing Letters
IS - 4
ER -