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We consider general secure function evaluation (SFE) of private functions (PF-SFE). Recall, privacy of functions is often most efficiently achieved by general SFE [18,19,10] of a Universal Circuit (UC).
Our main contribution is a new simple and efficient UC construction. Our circuit UC k , universal for circuits of k gates, has size ~1.5 k log2 k and depth ~k logk. It is up to 50% smaller than the best UC (of Valiant [16], of size ~19klogk) for circuits of size up to ≈ 5000 gates.
Our improvement results in corresponding performance improvement of SFE of (small) private functions. Since, due to cost, only small circuits (i.e. < 5000 gates) are practical for PF-SFE, our construction appears to be the best fit for many practical PF-SFE.
We implement PF-SFE based on our UC and Fairplay SFE system [11].
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Kolesnikov, V., Schneider, T. (2008). A Practical Universal Circuit Construction and Secure Evaluation of Private Functions. In: Tsudik, G. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5143. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85230-8_7
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