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Multi-Party Protocols, Information Complexity and Privacy

Authors Iordanis Kerenidis, Adi Rosén, Florent Urrutia

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  • multi-party protocols
  • information theory
  • communication complexity
  • multi-party private computation (MPC)
  • randomness

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Abstract

We introduce the new measure of Public Information Complexity (PIC), as a tool for the study of multi-party computation protocols, and of quantities such as their communication complexity, or the amount of randomness they require in the context of information-theoretic private computations. We are able to use this measure directly in the natural asynchronous message-passing peer-to-peer model and show a  number of interesting properties and applications of our new notion:
the Public Information Complexity is a lower bound on the Communication Complexity and an upper bound on the Information Complexity; the difference between the Public Information Complexity and the Information Complexity provides a lower bound on the amount of randomness used in a protocol; any communication protocol can be compressed to its Public Information Cost; an explicit  calculation of  the zero-error Public Information Complexity of the k-party, n-bit Parity function, where a player outputs the bit-wise parity of the inputs. The latter result establishes that the amount of randomness needed for a private protocol that computes this function is Omega(n).

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Iordanis Kerenidis, Adi Rosén, and Florent Urrutia. Multi-Party Protocols, Information Complexity and Privacy. In 41st International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 58, pp. 57:1-57:16, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2016.57

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Iordanis Kerenidis
Adi Rosén
Florent Urrutia

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