Abstract

As secure multi-party computation (MPC) moves into the mainstream, users will expect it to support familiar data types such as IEEE-754 standard floating-point representations. Today, however, MPC typically does not support that standard. Instead, MPC implementations generally support alternative real number representations that are more amenable to MPC computation. In this paper, we compare performance of IEEE-754 floating point in MPC with those alternative representations, and we show that IEEE-754 may not perform well enough in MPC to be a wise choice.

Assets

• The Cost of IEEE Arithmetic in Secure Computation

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2021:054,
    author = {David W. Archer and Shahla Atapoor and Nigel P. Smart},
    title = {The Cost of IEEE Arithmetic in Secure Computation},
    howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Report 2021/054},
    year = {2021},
    note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/054}},
}