Round efficient unconditionally secure multiparty computation protocol

In this paper, we propose a round efficient unconditionally secure multiparty computation (UMPC) protocol in information theoretic model with n > 2t players, in the absence of any physical broadcast channel. Our protocol communicates field elements per multiplication and requires rounds, even if up to t players are under the control of an active adversary having unbounded computing power, where denotes the multiplicative depth of the circuit representing the function to be computed securely. In the absence of a physical broadcast channel and with n > 2t players, the best known UMPC protocol with minimum number of rounds, requires rounds and communicates field elements per multiplication. On the other hand, the best known UMPC protocol with minimum communication complexity requires communication overhead of field elements per multiplication, but has a round complexity of rounds. Hence our UMPC protocol is the most round efficient protocol so far and ranks second according to communication complexity. © 2008 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.