In federated learning, secret sharing is a key technology to maintain the privacy of participants’ local models. Moreover, with the rapid development of quantum computers, existing federated learning privacy protection schemes based on secret sharing will no longer be able to guarantee the data security of participants in the post-quantum era. In addition, existing privacy protection methods have the problem of high communication and computational overhead. Although the multi-stage secret sharing scheme proposed by Pilaram et al. is one of the effective solutions to the above problems, existing studies have proven the privacy leakage risk of this scheme. This paper firstly designs a new lattice-based multi-stage secret sharing scheme
Improved-Pilaram
to solve the security problem, which allows participants to use public vectors to reconstruct different secret values without changing the secret sharing. Based on
Improved-Pilaram
, this article proposes a post-quantum secure federated learning scheme
PQSF
.
PQSF
uses double masking technology to encrypt model parameters and achieves mask reconstruction through secret sharing. Since
Improved-Pilaram
is multi-stage, participants do not need to update their local secret shares frequently during training. Analysis and experimental results show that the
PQSF
proposed in this paper reduces the communication complexity between participants and reduces the computational overhead by about 20% compared with existing solutions.