Abstract
The goal of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) is to perform an arbitrary computation in a distributed, private, and fault-tolerant way. For this purpose, a fixed set of n parties runs a protocol that tolerates an adversary corrupting a subset of the participating parties, and still preserves certain security guarantees.
Most MPC protocols provide security guarantees in an all-or-nothing fashion. In this paper, we provide the first treatment of MPC with graceful degradation of both security and corruptions. First of all, our protocols provide graceful degradation of security, i.e., different security guarantees depending on the actual number of corrupted parties: the more corruptions, the weaker the security guarantee. We consider all security properties generally discussed in the literature (secrecy, correctness, robustness, fairness, and agreement on abort). Furthermore, the protocols provide graceful degradation with respect to the corruption type, by distinguishing fully honest parties, passively corrupted parties, and actively corrupted parties. Security can be maintained against more passive corruptions than is possible for active corruptions.
We focus on perfect security, and prove exact bounds for which MPC with graceful degradation of security and corruptions is possible for both threshold and general adversaries. Furthermore, we provide protocols that meet these bounds. This strictly generalizes known results on hybrid security and mixed adversaries.
The full version of this paper is available at the Cryptology ePrint Archive: http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/094. This work was partially supported by the Zurich Information Security Center.
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Hirt, M., Lucas, C., Maurer, U., Raub, D. (2011). Graceful Degradation in Multi-Party Computation (Extended Abstract). In: Fehr, S. (eds) Information Theoretic Security. ICITS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20728-0_15
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