"Claudio Orlandi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: (I send your off-list reply back on track)
> Where is a description of the new protocol? "Use the source, Luke!" :-) It is just the normal passive multiplication protocol where I have cut away all the work that is not needed: we only need 2t+1 shares to recombine, so only 2t+1 players will even calculate and broadcast shares. The others simply wait on the 2t+1 shares. >> The good question is now how we can get the best of both worlds so >> that the case with (n, t) = (3, 1) remains fast. > > What about "if n=3 then RunOldProtocol else RunNewProtocol"? :) Wrong syntax: "if n=3: RunOldProtocol() else: RunNewProtocol()" :-) But apart from that then you're right -- maybe that is what we have to do if we can find a nice way to do it. -- Martin Geisler VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient SMPC (Secure Multi-Party Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/. _______________________________________________ viff-devel mailing list (http://viff.dk/) viff-devel@viff.dk http://lists.viff.dk/listinfo.cgi/viff-devel-viff.dk