Cryptography
How do we secure the seemingly infinite stream of data, public and personal, on the internet – and how do we ensure that the interactions we facilitate are safe from malice?
Cryptography is at the core of safeguarding data transmission, delivery processing and storage. It not only protects data from theft or alteration, but can also be used for user authentication. The UCLA Connection Lab is researching various facets of cryptography to ensure the integrity of the internet.
Cryptography
Inventory Auctions via Function Secret Sharing
An inventory auction is a game in which each player wishes to either buy or sell some amount of a…
Cryptography
PARSEC: Private AggRegate Statistics from sharE Conversion
Recent advances in MPC have allowed for systems which privately compute aggregate statistics on inputs from many players. We have…
Cryptography
Improved Zero Knowledge ZK-PCP from MPC
“MPC in the head” is a well-known cryptographic technique for constructing a probabilistically-checkable zero-knowledge proof (PCP) out of an MPC…
Cryptography
Verifiably Hard Functions
Computer science tools, particularly cryptographic tools, depend on some underlying function which is difficult to compute. This is of particular…
Cryptography
Efficient Private Learning
Recent advances in MPC have allowed for systems which compute aggregate statistics on inputs from many players. We have noticed,…
Cryptography
Identifying Adversaries
The goal of multi-party computation (MPC) is to compute a function taking multiple parties’ private inputs without revealing those inputs…