On the Randomness Cost of Linear Secure Computation : (Invited Presentation)

We consider the problem of secure computation, where K users, each holding an independent message, wish to compute a function on the messages without revealing any additional information. We show that to compute M generic linear independent combinations of the messages securely (i.e., for the linear secure computation problem), it suffices to use $\min\left(\left\lceil\frac{K-M-1}{2}\right\rceil,~M\right)$ randomness symbols per message symbol (i.e., the randomness cost is no larger than $\min\left(\left\lceil\frac{K-M-1}{2}\right\rceil,~M\right)$). The optimality of the achieved randomness cost remains open.