In view of practical applications, it is a high priority to optimize the efficiency of methods for secure multi-party computations. A classic problem is described as following: there are two secrets, α and β, shared among n players using Shamir (t+1,n)-threshold secret sharing scheme, and how to make their product αβshared among n players using the same way. The protocol of Gennaro, Rabin and Rabin (1998) is a well known and efficient protocol for this purpose. It requires one round of communication and O(n2klog2n+nk2) bit-operations per player, where k is the bit size of the computing field and n is the number of players. In a previous paper (2007), the author presented a modification of this protocol, which reduced its complexity toOn2k+nk2. In 2009, Peter Lory reduced its complexity to On2k. A new protocol is presented in our paper, which reduces this complexity further to Onklog2k. It is better than Gennaro protocol unconditionally. And as to Peter Lory protocol, the reduction is profitable in situation where log2k is smaller than n.
Hierarchical Threshold Secret Sharing
