Multi-Party Computation: From Theory to Practice

  • Nigel Smart | University of Bristol

In the last couple of years amazing advances have been made on techniques to perform computation on encrypted data. Some of the techniques are even becoming practical. In this talk I will show a novel technique which utilizes techniques used in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes to provide efficiency improvements in Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols.

Speaker Details

Nigel Smart is a Professor of Cryptology at the University of Bristol. Before that he worked for Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. He is a Director of the IACR, and a holder of a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, and an ERC Advanced Grant. He has conducted work in various areas of cryptography ranging from elliptic curves, to pairings, to fully homomorphic encryption and to multi-party computation. His work is unified by the goal of turning cryptographic theory into practice.

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Series: Microsoft Research Talks