$\mathsf{Mercury}$: Constant-Round Protocols for Multi-Party Computation with Rationals

ePrint Report: $\mathsf{Mercury}$: Constant-Round Protocols for Multi-Party Computation with Rationals

Luke Harmon, Gaetan Delavignette

Secure computation has become a necessity in the modern world. Its applications are widespread: from allowing medical researchers to compute statistics over private patient data without violating HIPAA to helping large companies like Meta and Google avoid GDPR fines. A ubiquitous and popular choice for secure computation is Multi-party Computation (MPC). Most MPC protocols work over finite fields or rings, which means that encoding techniques are …

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