Hi Martin Thanks for your prompt reply. Much appreciated :)
If anyone on the list has any further pointers, I will be grateful for your response. Thanks in advance Kind Regards Sriram ________________________________________ From: m...@mgsys.dk [...@mgsys.dk] On Behalf Of Martin Geisler [...@lazybytes.net] Sent: 23 April 2010 18:04 To: Srinivasan S Mr (Computing); viff-devel@viff.dk Subject: Re: My dissertation <s.sriniva...@surrey.ac.uk> writes: Hi Sriram, I'll CC this message to the VIFF mailinglist as well -- there are many people there who can help you if I cannot. Please keep the list as CC on your replies. > Hi Martin > > I hope you have settled into your new workplace and enjoying yourself. Thanks, it's going well in my new job. > I had a few quick queries if you don't mind. > > I have been trying to get a grasp on MPC ideas over the past few days. > I was wondering if you could point me a recent comprehensive, but not > too heavy survey on MPC. If I could get an idea of how the field has > progressed and various approaches to achieving MPC without getting > bogged down in too much detail, it may be helpful for me at this > stage. I don't know of such a survey off the top of my head. > As I understand, VIFF implements the underlying functionality using > Shamir Secret Sharing. It seems there are other approaches possible as > well and one of my colleagues wanted to know if VIFF also implements > the ideas from the paper "Multiparty Computation from Threshold > Homomorphic Encryption by Ronald Cramer and Ivan Damgard and Jesper > Buus Nielsen"? My guess is No, but I am not not sure. Right, we have not implemented the protocols from that paper. > There are some papers that refer to this latter work, for example > "Efficient Binary Conversion for Paillier Encrypted Values by Berry > Schoenmakers and Pim Tuyls". I was wondering if the application in > this paper can be coded with the functionality provided by VIFF in > principle, or there are some details which may prevent it from being > so. I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with that paper. But you should think of VIFF as having a number of layers: 1. basic player administration 2. network setup 3. secret sharing and reconstruction (Shamir-based) 4. secure addition and multiplication 5. more complex protocols So depending on how the primitive above fits into the stack, you may be able to reuse more or less code. > Sorry if my queries don't make sense. I can admit I don't have much > knowledge of the details and I am trying pick up stuff as I go along. > > Thanks in advance. > > Best Wishes > > Sriram -- Martin Geisler _______________________________________________ viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) viff-devel@viff.dk http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk
