ACM CCS 2023: Eevee AEAD Family for IoT-to-Cloud Secure Computation

This blogpost summarizes our paper “Let’s Go Eevee! A Friendly and Suitable Family of AEAD Modes for IoT-to-Cloud Secure Computation” by authors Amit Singh Bhati, Erik Pohle, Aysajan Abidin, Elena […]

TPMPC 2022: Correlated Pseudorandomness from Expand-Accumulate Codes

Pseudorandom correlation generators (PCGs) are a promising line of research to reduce the communication complexity of the pre-processing phase of many MPC protocols. In her invited talk at TPMPC 2022, Lisa Kohl gave an introduction to PCGs before presenting novel work on a PCG construction based on Expand-Acumulate codes in the learning parity with noise (LPN) setting, which is due to appear in Crypto 2022. The constructions shown in the talk focus on a two-party secure computation.

Eurocrypt 2022: Garbled Circuits With Sublinear Evaluator

Garbled Circuits are one fundamental technique for secure two-party computation. The presentation by David Heath at Eurocrypt 2022 introduces an improvement of previous work for garbling functions with branches. While in the classic garbled circuit setting branching on secret values cannot be supported as efficiently as branches in cleartext computation, the work of Stacked Garbling [Heath21] and this follow-up work, supports function evaluation with a large number of branches more efficiently. They also sketch an application for garbled private information retrieval (PIR).