4 Search Results for "Weinreb, Enav"


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Ideal Private Simultaneous Messages Schemes and Their Applications

Authors: Keitaro Hiwatashi and Reo Eriguchi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
Private Simultaneous Messages (PSM) is a minimal model for secure computation, where two parties, Alice and Bob, have private inputs x,y and a shared random string. Each of them sends a single message to an external party, Charlie, who can compute f(x,y) for a public function f but learns nothing else. The problem of narrowing the gap between upper and lower bounds on the communication complexity of PSM has been widely studied, but the gap still remains exponential. In this work, we study the communication complexity of PSM from a different perspective and introduce a special class of PSM, referred to as ideal PSM, in which each party’s message length attains the minimum, that is, their messages are taken from the same domain as inputs. We initiate a systematic study of ideal PSM with a complete characterization, several positive results, and applications. First, we provide a characterization of the class of functions that admit ideal PSM, based on permutation groups acting on the input domain. This characterization allows us to derive asymptotic upper bounds on the total number of such functions and a complete list for small domains. We also present several infinite families of functions of practical interest that admit ideal PSM. Interestingly, by simply restricting the input domains of these ideal PSM schemes, we can recover most of the existing PSM schemes that achieve the best known communication complexity in various computation models. As applications, we show that these ideal PSM schemes yield novel communication-efficient PSM schemes for functions with sparse or dense truth-tables and those with low-rank truth-tables. Furthermore, we obtain a PSM scheme for general functions that improves the constant factor in the dominant term of the best known communication complexity. An additional advantage is that our scheme simplifies the existing construction by avoiding the hierarchical design of internally invoking PSM schemes for smaller functions.

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Keitaro Hiwatashi and Reo Eriguchi. Ideal Private Simultaneous Messages Schemes and Their Applications. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 76:1-76:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{hiwatashi_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.76,
  author =	{Hiwatashi, Keitaro and Eriguchi, Reo},
  title =	{{Ideal Private Simultaneous Messages Schemes and Their Applications}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{76:1--76:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.76},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253633},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.76},
  annote =	{Keywords: secure computation, private simultaneous messages, communication complexity}
}
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Linear Time Encodable Binary Code Achieving GV Bound with Linear Time Encodable Dual Achieving GV Bound

Authors: Martijn Brehm and Nicolas Resch

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 362, 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)


Abstract
We initiate the study of what we term "fast good codes" with "fast good duals." Specifically, we consider the task of constructing a binary linear code C ≤ 𝔽₂ⁿ such that both it and its dual C^⟂ : = {x ∈ 𝔽₂ⁿ:∀ c ∈ C, ⟨ x,c⟩ = 0} are asymptotically good (in fact, have rate-distance tradeoff approaching the GV bound), and are encodable in O(n) time. While we believe such codes should find applications more broadly, as motivation we describe how such codes can be used the secure computation task of encrypted matrix-vector product, as studied by Behhamouda et al (CCS 2025). Our main contribution is a construction of such a fast good code with fast good dual. Our construction is inspired by the repeat multiple accumulate (RMA) codes of Divsalar, Jin and McEliece (Allerton, 1998). To create the rate 1/2 code, after repeating each message coordinate, we perform accumulation steps - where first a uniform coordinate permutation is applied, and afterwards the prefix-sum modulo 2 is applied - which are alternated with discrete derivative steps - where again a uniform coordinate permutation is applied, and afterwards the previous two coordinates are summed modulo 2. Importantly, these two operations are inverse of each other. In particular, the dual of the code is very similar, with the accumulation and discrete derivative steps reversed. Our analysis is inspired by a prior analysis of RMA codes due to Ravazzi and Fagnani (IEEE Trans. Info. Theory, 2009). The main idea is to bound the input-output weight-enumerator function: the expected number of messages of a given weight that are encoded into a codeword of a given weight. We face new challenges in controlling the behaviour of the discrete derivative matrix (which can significantly drop the weight of a vector), which we overcome by careful case analysis.

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Martijn Brehm and Nicolas Resch. Linear Time Encodable Binary Code Achieving GV Bound with Linear Time Encodable Dual Achieving GV Bound. In 17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 362, pp. 28:1-28:19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2026)


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@InProceedings{brehm_et_al:LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.28,
  author =	{Brehm, Martijn and Resch, Nicolas},
  title =	{{Linear Time Encodable Binary Code Achieving GV Bound with Linear Time Encodable Dual Achieving GV Bound}},
  booktitle =	{17th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference (ITCS 2026)},
  pages =	{28:1--28:19},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-410-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2026},
  volume =	{362},
  editor =	{Saraf, Shubhangi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.28},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-253157},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITCS.2026.28},
  annote =	{Keywords: Binary error-correcting codes, dual codes, fast encoding, repeat-multiple-accumulate codes}
}
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On the Definition of Malicious Private Information Retrieval

Authors: Bar Alon and Amos Beimel

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 343, 6th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2025)


Abstract
A multi-server private information retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a client to obtain an entry of its choice from a database, held by one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the entry from small enough coalitions of servers. In this paper, we study PIR protocols in which some of the servers are malicious and may not send messages according to the pre-described protocol. In previous papers, such protocols were defined by requiring that they are correct, private, and robust to malicious servers, i.e., by listing 3 properties that they should satisfy. However, 40 years of experience in studying secure multiparty protocols taught us that defining the security of protocols by a list of required properties is problematic. In this paper, we rectify this situation and define the security of PIR protocols with malicious servers using the real vs. ideal paradigm. We study the relationship between the property-based definition of PIR protocols and the real vs. ideal definition, showing the following results: - We prove that if we require full security from PIR protocols, e.g., the client outputs the correct value of the database entry with high probability even if a minority of the servers are malicious, then the two definitions are equivalent. This implies that constructions of such protocols that were proven secure using the property-based definition are actually secure under the "correct" definition of security. - We show that if we require security-with-abort from PIR protocols (called PIR protocols with error-detection in previous papers), i.e., protocols in which the user either outputs the correct value or an abort symbol, then there are protocols that are secure under the property-based definition; however, they do not satisfy the real vs. ideal definition, that is, they can be attacked allowing selective abort. This shows that the property-based definition of PIR protocols with security-with-abort is problematic. - We consider the compiler of Eriguchi et al. (TCC 22) that starts with a PIR protocol that is secure against semi-honest servers and constructs a PIR protocol with security-with-abort; this compiler implies the best-known PIR protocols with security-with-abort. We show that applying this compiler does not result in PIR protocols that are secure according to the real vs. ideal definition. However, we prove that a simple modification of this compiler results in PIR protocols that are secure according to the real vs. ideal definition.

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Bar Alon and Amos Beimel. On the Definition of Malicious Private Information Retrieval. In 6th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 343, pp. 8:1-8:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)


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@InProceedings{alon_et_al:LIPIcs.ITC.2025.8,
  author =	{Alon, Bar and Beimel, Amos},
  title =	{{On the Definition of Malicious Private Information Retrieval}},
  booktitle =	{6th Conference on Information-Theoretic Cryptography (ITC 2025)},
  pages =	{8:1--8:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-385-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{343},
  editor =	{Gilboa, Niv},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2025.8},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-243581},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ITC.2025.8},
  annote =	{Keywords: Private information retrieval, secure multiparty computation}
}
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Secure Linear Algebra Using Linearly Recurrent Sequences

Authors: Eike Kiltz and Enav Weinreb

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6111, Complexity of Boolean Functions (2006)


Abstract
In this work we present secure two-party protocols for various core problems in linear algebra. Our main building block is a protocol to obliviously decide singularity of an encrypted matrix: Bob holds an $n imes n$ matrix $M$, encrypted with Alice's secret key, and wants to learn whether the matrix is singular or not (and nothing beyond that). We give an interactive protocol between Alice and Bob that solves the above problem with optimal communication complexity while at the same time achieving low round complexity. More precisely, the number of communication rounds in our protocol is $polylog(n)$ and the overall communication is roughly $O(n^2)$ (note that the input size is $n^2$). At the core of our protocol we exploit some nice mathematical properties of linearly recurrent sequences and their relation to the characteristic polynomial of the matrix $M$, following [Wiedemann, 1986]. With our new techniques we are able to improve the round complexity of the communication efficient solution of [Nissim and Weinreb, 2006] from $n^{0.275}$ to $polylog(n)$. Based on our singularity protocol we further extend our result to the problems of securely computing the rank of an encrypted matrix and solving systems of linear equations.

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Eike Kiltz and Enav Weinreb. Secure Linear Algebra Using Linearly Recurrent Sequences. In Complexity of Boolean Functions. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 6111, pp. 1-19, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2006)


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@InProceedings{kiltz_et_al:DagSemProc.06111.16,
  author =	{Kiltz, Eike and Weinreb, Enav},
  title =	{{Secure Linear Algebra Using Linearly Recurrent Sequences}},
  booktitle =	{Complexity of Boolean Functions},
  pages =	{1--19},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2006},
  volume =	{6111},
  editor =	{Matthias Krause and Pavel Pudl\'{a}k and R\"{u}diger Reischuk and Dieter van Melkebeek},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.06111.16},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-6101},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.06111.16},
  annote =	{Keywords: Secure Linear Algebra, Linearly Recurrent Sequences, Wiedemann's Algorithm}
}
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