Conversion of real-numbered privacy-preserving problems into the integer domain

Abstract

Secure Multiparty Computation (SMC) enables untrusting parties to jointly compute a function on their respective inputs without revealing any information but the outcome. Almost all techniques for SMC support only integer inputs and operations. We present a secure scaling protocol for two parties to map real number inputs into integers without revealing any information about their respective inputs. The main component is a novel algorithm for privacy-preserving random number generation. We also show how to implement the protocol using Yao's garbled circuit technique. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.