Unique Software Engineering Techniques: Panacea for Threat Complexities in Secure Multiparty Computation (MPC) with Big Data

Abstract

Most large corporations with big data have adopted more privacy measures in handling their sensitive/private data and as a result, employing the use of analytic tools to run across multiple sources has become ineffective. Joint computation across multiple parties is allowed through the use of secure multi-party computations (MPC). The practicality of MPC is impaired when dealing with large datasets as more of its algorithms are poorly scaled with data sizes. Despite its limitations, MPC continues to attract increasing attention from industry players who have viewed it as a better approach to exploiting big data. Secure MPC is however, faced with complexities that most times overwhelm its handlers, so the need for special software engineering techniques for resolving these threat complexities. This research presents cryptographic data security measures, garbed circuits protocol, optimizing circuits, and protocol execution techniques as some of the special techniques for resolving threat complexities associated with MPC’s. Honest majority, asymmetric trust, covert security, and trading off leakage are some of the experimental outcomes of implementing these special techniques. This paper also reveals that an essential approach in developing suitable mitigation strategies is having knowledge of the adversary type.