1970-01-01

(2026-02) Information-Theoretic Network-Agnostic MPC with Polynomial Communication

• [[Xiaoyu Ji]]
• [[Chen-Da Liu-Zhang]]
• [[Daniel Pöllmann]]
• [[Yifan Song]]

2026-02-24

• #cryptography
• #paper

Abstract

Network-agnostic MPC protocols tolerate simultaneously a higher number of corruptions $t_s < n/2$ when the network is synchronous, and a lower number $t_a < n/3$ when the network is asynchronous. As such, they provide strong resilience, irrespective of the type of underlying communication network.

We focus on improving the communication complexity of network-agnostic MPC with optimal resilience $2t_s + t_a < n$. In this regime, there are no polynomial-time information-theoretic solutions and current computational protocols (without fully-homomorphic encryption) communicate $O(n^2)$ elements per multiplication gate.

In this work, we significantly advance the landscape by introducing the first information-theoretic protocol with quadratic communication per multiplication gate and the first computational protocol with linear communication per multiplication gate based solely on signatures and symmetric-key encryption.