About

Since January 2025, I am a postdoctoral researcher at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, working with Julian Loss.

Previously, I was a PhD student at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique Fondementale IRIF, Université Paris Cité, under the supervision of Geoffroy Couteau and Alain Couvreur. My subject was “Multiparty Computation from the Hardness of Coding Theory”, and you can find my thesis here

More generally, my research interests lie in Secure Multiparty Computation, and Pseudorandomness Generation, Coding Theory, and general foundation of cryptography. You can find my CV here.

Publication

  • FOLEAGE: F4OLE-Based Multi-Party Computation for Boolean Circuits, Dung Bui, Maxime Bombar, Geoffroy Couteau, Clément Ducros and Sacha Servan-Schreiber, ASIACRYPT 2024 (ePrint,Springer).
Abstract

Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) allows two or more parties to compute any public function over their privately-held inputs, without revealing any information be- yond the result of the computation. Modern protocols for MPC generate a large amount of input-independent preprocessing material called multiplication triples, in an offline phase. This preprocessing can later be used by the parties to efficiently instantiate an input-dependent online phase computing the function. To date, the state-of-the-art secure multi-party computation protocols in the preprocessing model are tailored to secure computation of arithmetic circuits over large fields and require little communication in the preprocessing phase, typically O(N ·m) to generate m triples among N parties. In contrast, when it comes to computing preprocessing for computations that are naturally represented as Boolean circuits, the state-of-the-art techniques have not evolved since the 1980s, and in particular, require every pair of parties to execute a large number of oblivious transfers before interacting to convert them to N -party triples, which induces an Ω(N 2 · m) communication overhead. In this paper, we introduce F4OLEAGE, which addresses this gap by introducing an efficient preprocessing protocol tailored to Boolean circuits, with semi-honest security and tolerating N − 1 corruptions. F4OLEAGE has excellent concrete performance: It generates m multiplication triples over F2 using only N · m + O(N 2 · log m) bits of communication for N -parties, and can concretely produce over 12 million triples per second in the 2-party setting on one core of a commodity machine. Our result builds upon an efficient Pseudorandom Correlation Generator (PCG) for multiplication triples over the field F4. Roughly speaking, a PCG enables parties to stretch a short seed into a large number of pseudorandom correlations non-interactively, which greatly improves the efficiency of the offline phase in MPC protocols. This is achieved by intro- ducing a number of protocol-level, algorithmic-level, and implementation-level optimizations on the recent PCG construction of Bombar et al. (Crypto 2023) from the Quasi-Abelian Syndrome Decoding assumption.

  • Correlated Pseudorandomness from the Hardness of Quasi-Abelian Decoding, Maxime Bombar, Geoffroy Couteau, Alain Couvreur, and Clément Ducros in CRYPTO 2023 (ePrint,Springer)

  • Pseudorandom Correlation Functions from Variable-Density LPN, Revisited, Geoffroy Couteau and Clément Ducros, in PKC 2023 (ePrint,Springer)

We may have met - Events and Talks

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