# Information Security and Cryptography Research Group

## Upper Bounds on the Communication Complexity of Optimally Resilient Cryptographic Multiparty Computation

### Martin Hirt and Jesper Buus Nielsen

Advances in Cryptology — ASIACRYPT 2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 3788, pp. 79–99, Dec 2005.

We give improved upper bounds on the communication complexity of optimally-resilient secure multiparty computation in the cryptographic model. We consider evaluating an $n$-party randomized function and show that if $f$ can be computed by a circuit of size $c$, then $\O(c n^2 \kappa)$ is an upper bound for active security with optimal resilience $t < n/2$ and security parameter $\kappa$. This improves on the communication complexity of previous protocols by a factor of at least $n$. This improvement comes from the fact that in the new protocol, only $\O(n)$ messages (of size $\O(\kappa)$ each) are broadcast during the whole protocol execution, in contrast to previous protocols which require at least $\O(n)$ broadcasts per gate.

Furthermore, we improve the upper bound on the communication complexity of passive secure multiparty computation with resilience $t<n$ from $\O(c n^2 \kappa)$ to $\O(c n \kappa)$. This improvement is mainly due to a simple observation.

## BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{HirNie05,
author       = {Martin Hirt and Jesper Buus Nielsen},
title        = {Upper Bounds on the Communication Complexity of Optimally Resilient Cryptographic Multiparty Computation},
editor       = {Bimal Roy},
booktitle    = {Advances in Cryptology --- ASIACRYPT 2005},
pages        = 79--99,
series       = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
volume       = 3788,
year         = 2005,
month        = 12,
publisher    = {Springer-Verlag},
}