This book provides information on theoretically secure multiparty computation (MPC) and secret sharing, and the fascinating relationship between the two concepts.

Ronald Cramer leads the Cryptology Group at CWI Amsterdam, the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands, and is Professor at the Mathematical Institute, Leiden University. He is Fellow of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR) and Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Part I. Secure Multiparty Computation: 1. Introduction; 2. Preliminaries; 3. MPC protocols with passive security; 4. Models; 5. Information theoretic robust MPC protocols; 6. MPC from general linear secret sharing schemes; 7. Cryptographic MPC protocols; 8. Some techniques for efficiency improvements; 9. Applications of MPC; Part II. Secret Sharing: 10. Algebraic preliminaries; 11. Secret sharing; 12. Arithmetic codices; Part III. Back Material.