Re: [viff-devel] Asymmetric protocols

2008-01-29 Thread Martin Geisler
Tord Ingolf Reistad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree only sharing and opening will be asymmetric, and there are > many cases in which an opening will be asymmetric. To make it really > confusing there might be cases in which the opening might be > dependent upon some secret shared variable. >

Re: [viff-devel] Asymmetric protocols

2008-01-29 Thread Martin Geisler
Tord Ingolf Reistad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (Please remember to send your replies to the list too.) > [... use case about locating the nearest nurse securely...] I found your use case very interesting, but probably also quite difficult. But I really wanted to comment on the side note: > As

Re: [viff-devel] Asymmetric protocols

2008-01-29 Thread Tord Ingolf Reistad
Martin Geisler wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> Are there really other problems than sharing (and opening a shared >> value towards only one party)? > > I don't think so. All other operations (addition, multiplication, > comparison, etc...) are done on variables which represent values i