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Security Technique Protects Multi-Party Computation

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Aarhus University Professor Ivan Damgård is "convinced" that secure multi-party computation "will be very significant in information security in the future." Credit: Berit Sondergaard

By Bob Violino

January 22, 2010

Recent academic research is advancing the development of secure multi-party computation (SMC), an security technique aimed at protecting data for various online interactions. SMC enables two or more participants to conduct transactions or make computations while keeping certain information secret. The approach could be applied to private bidding, decryption functions, and private information retrieval.

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