New notions of security: achieving universal composability without trusted setup

We propose a modification to the framework of Universally Composable (UC) security [3]. Our new notion involves comparing the real protocol execution with an ideal execution involving ideal functionalities (just as in UC-security), but allowing the environment and adversary access to some super-polynomial computational power. We argue the meaningfulness of the new notion, which in particular subsumes many of the traditional notions of security. We generalize the Universal Composition theorem of [3] to the new setting. Then under new computational assumptions, we realize secure multi-party computation (for static adversaries) without a common reference string or any other set-up assumptions, in the new framework. This is known to be impossible under the UC framework.

Authors

• Manoj Prabhakaran 0001
• Amit Sahai

Keywords

• secure protocols
• general composition
• generalized environmental security
• universal composability
• simulation
• environmental security
• secure multi-party computation