Secure Two-Party Computation

When: Tuesday, 2013-Jan-15, 11h30-12h00
Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38
Presenter: Luís Brandão

Abstract:
In this smalltalk, I will describe the goal of Secure Two Party Computation (a cryptographic functionality). As motivation, the audience will solve in practice, without math, two simple problems:

a) Imagine you think of a number between 1 and 5 and your friend also thinks of a number. Both feel embarassed to say your option, but would not mind learning only whether you are thinking of the same number or not. How can you do it?

b) After a first date, a couple would like to know if both like each other. How can they compute just that, without chance of one declaring his/her positive feelings while being rejected by the other? In other words: how to compute the Boolean AND-gate securely?

Based on this, I will motivate more complex applications, e.g., related with privacy of medical data, and ask the audience for ideas of applications where S2PC could bring an added social value.

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