VENI grant for Divya Ravi

Divya Ravi, assistant professor in the TCS group has been awarded a personal VENI grant from NWO, congratulations!!

Dr Divya Ravi (Computer Science) - Practical Multi-Party Computation with Cheater Identification

Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) enables multiple parties to jointly compute a function over their private inputs without revealing those inputs. Despite its great potential, the use of MPC protocols has been limited because in most practical protocols, it is possible for cheating participants to disrupt the computation without any consequences. This discourages honest participation, making cheater identification crucial. Ravi’s project will build practically efficient MPC protocols with cheater identification through two main approaches: first, by exploring alternative, cost-effective yet realistic notions of identifiability; and second, by refining the attack model in a way that captures real-world threats, but is not unnecessarily strong.

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