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Broadcast (and Round) Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing

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Abstract

Verifiable secret sharing (VSS) is a fundamental cryptographic primitive, lying at the core of secure multi-party computation (MPC) and, as the distributed analogue of a commitment functionality, used in numerous applications. In this paper we focus on unconditionally secure VSS protocols with honest majority.

In this setting it is typically assumed that parties are connected pairwise by authenticated, private channels, and that in addition they have access to a “broadcast” channel. Because broadcast cannot be simulated on a point-to-point network when a third or more of the parties are corrupt, it is impossible to construct VSS (and more generally, MPC) protocols in this setting without using a broadcast channel (or some equivalent addition to the model).

A great deal of research has focused on increasing the efficiency of VSS, primarily in terms of round complexity. In this work we consider a refinement of the round complexity of VSS, by adding a measure we term broadcast complexity. We view the broadcast channel as an expensive resource and seek to minimize the number of rounds in which it is invoked as well.

We construct a (linear) VSS protocol which uses the broadcast channel only twice in the sharing phase, while running in an overall constant number of rounds.

The unabridged version of this paper appears in [GGOR13].

Clint Givens is supported in part by NSF grants 0830803, 09165174, 1065276, 1118126 and 1136174, US-Israel BSF grant 2008411, OKAWA Foundation Research Award, IBM Faculty Research Award, Xerox Faculty Research Award, B. John Garrick Foundation Award, Teradata Research Award, and Lockheed-Martin Corporation Research Award. This material is based upon work supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency through the U.S. Office of Naval Research under Contract N00014-11-1-0392. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense or the U.S. Government.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Trouble comes, however, when analyzing round complexity: as observed in [KK07, Koo07, KKK08], Byzantine agreement is round-expensive, and the compilation from black-box broadcast to simulated broadcast blows up the number of rounds substantially.

  2. 2.

    As this discussion suggests, it may happen that \(D\) broadcasts an honest party’s shares in step 9; this can only happen if \(\mathcal {A}\) succeeds in an IC forgery attempt (hence with negligible probability). As a consequence, our protocol achieves statistical but not perfect privacy. On the other hand, privacy is perfect conditioned on the event that \(\mathcal {A}\) is unsuccessful in all forgery attempts, as a failed forgery by itself reveals nothing about \(s\).

  3. 3.

    We note that in the description of the compilation from [KK06] gradecast with grades in \(\{0,1,2\}\) is used. Here we use gradecast with grades in \(\{0,1\}\) because during the compilation it is only required to distinguish the maximal grade from all other grades (so we put maximal grade to 1 instead of 2).

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  2. Maine School of Science and Mathematics, Limestone, MN, USA

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  3. Department of Computer Science and Department of Mathematics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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  4. ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

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Garay, J., Givens, C., Ostrovsky, R., Raykov, P. (2014). Broadcast (and Round) Efficient Verifiable Secret Sharing. In: Padró, C. (eds) Information Theoretic Security. ICITS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8317. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04268-8_12

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