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IACR News item: 05 January 2024

Zhenkai Hu, Kang Yang, Yu Yu
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Through tremendous efforts, the communication cost of secure multi-party computation (MPC) in the honest-majority setting has been significantly improved. In particular, the state-of-the-art honest-majority MPC protocol by Escudero et al. (CCS'22) takes 12 field elements in total per multiplication gate for arithmetic circuits in the online phase. However, it still requires $12 \log(5n/4)$ bits of online communication per AND gate for Boolean circuits. That is, for Boolean circuits, no MPC protocol with constant online communication is known.

In this paper, we present an unconditionally secure MPC protocol for Boolean circuits in the honest-majority setting, which has constant online communication complexity and the offline communication complexity linear to the number $n$ of parties. We first describe the semi-honest MPC protocol and then show how to extend it to achieve malicious security, where the maliciously secure protocol has the same communication cost as the semi-honest protocol. In particular, our protocol achieves the amortized communication cost $36$ bits per AND gate in the online phase and $30n+24$ bits per AND gate in the offline phase.
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