libdpf/doc/pages/bibliography.md

# Bibliography {#bibliography}

Each paper is listed once. An ePrint number anywhere else in the manual
links here. **Used in** points back at the pages that rely on that paper.

ePrint PDFs that IACR posts are cached next to these pages.
Publisher PDFs from Springer, ACM, and USENIX are not.

[Point functions](@ref bib_sec_point) ·
[Generation and OT](@ref bib_sec_ot) ·
[Comparisons and proofs](@ref bib_sec_cmp) ·
[Three parties](@ref bib_sec_three) ·
[Grotto](@ref bib_sec_grotto) ·
[Protocols](@ref bib_sec_protocols)

## Point functions and trees {#bib_sec_point}

### Improvements and extensions {#bib_fss2018}

Elette Boyle, Niv Gilboa, and Yuval Ishai.
*Function Secret Sharing: Improvements and Extensions.*
ACM CCS 2016, pp. 1292–1303. Full version, 24 July 2018.
[ePrint 2018/707](https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/707) ·
<a href="boyle-gilboa-ishai-fss-improvements-eprint-2018-707.pdf">PDF</a>

The point-function key `make_dpf` follows. Remark 3.4 is the early-stop
packing: the last `ν = log2(λ / log2|G|)` levels are a lane inside the
leaf, not correction words.

**Used in** [First program](@ref basics) · [Evaluation](@ref evaluation) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_eval)

### Function Secret Sharing (2015) {#bib_fss2015}

Elette Boyle, Niv Gilboa, and Yuval Ishai.
*Function Secret Sharing.*
EUROCRYPT 2015, LNCS 9057, pp. 337–367.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46803-6_12">Publisher</a>

The `4n(λ+1)`-bit key named in the manual, as recorded in the
bibliography of ePrint 2018/707. This library does not generate that key.

**Used in** [First program](@ref basics) · [Evaluation](@ref evaluation)

### Half-Tree {#bib_halftree}

Xiaojie Guo, Kang Yang, Xiao Wang, Wenhao Zhang, Xiang Xie, Jiang Zhang, and Zheli Liu.
*Half-Tree: Halving the Cost of Tree Expansion in COT and DPF.*
[ePrint 2022/1431](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/1431) ·
<a href="guo-yang-wang-zhang-xie-zhang-liu-half-tree-eprint-2022-1431.pdf">PDF</a>

`prg::aes128_ccr` selects their dealer point-key expand. Section 5.2 is
a different object: two-party key generation in the COT/OLE hybrid.

**Used in** [First program](@ref dpf_trees) · [Evaluation](@ref evaluation) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_trees)

### Information-theoretic DPF {#bib_itdpf}

Elette Boyle, Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai, and Victor I. Kolobov.
*Information-Theoretic Distributed Point Functions.*
[ePrint 2023/028](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/028) ·
<a href="boyle-gilboa-ishai-kolobov-it-dpf-eprint-2023-028.pdf">PDF</a>

A statistically private 3-server DPF. `make_it_dpf3` is the additive
interface on a `uint8_t` domain, not the 2-party PRG key.

**Used in** [Multiparty](@ref multiparty) · [Three-server PIR](@ref app_pir3) · [Evaluation](@ref it_dpf3)

### Distributed point functions (2014) {#bib_dpf2014}

Niv Gilboa and Yuval Ishai.
*Distributed Point Functions and Their Applications.*
EUROCRYPT 2014, LNCS 8441, pp. 640–658.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55220-5_36">Publisher</a>

Two-server keyword PIR from a point function on the keyword.

**Used in** [Keyword PIR](@ref app_keyword)

## Generation and oblivious transfer {#bib_sec_ot}

### Scaling ORAM {#bib_ds}

Jack Doerner and abhi shelat.
*Scaling ORAM for Secure Computation.*
ACM CCS 2017, pp. 523–535.
[ePrint 2017/827](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/827) ·
<a href="doerner-shelat-scaling-oram-eprint-2017-827.pdf">PDF</a>

The per-level correction-word opening. `geneval_*` uses that opening on
the public query and does not return their reusable key. Floram's secret
read and write are the same opening.

**Used in** [Dealer-free keygen](@ref dealer_free) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_ds) · [Floram](@ref app_floram)

### IKNP OT extension {#bib_iknp}

Yuval Ishai, Joe Kilian, Kobbi Nissim, and Erez Petrank.
*Extending Oblivious Transfers Efficiently.*
CRYPTO 2003, LNCS 2729, pp. 145–161.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45146-4_9">Publisher</a>

The semi-honest OT extension `dpf::iknp::sample` follows: κ base OTs,
then a correlation-robust hash of the transposed matrix. IKNP is these
four authors.

**Used in** [Dealer-free keygen](@ref dealer_free) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_iknp)

### Simplest OT {#bib_chou}

Tung Chou and Claudio Orlandi.
*The Simplest Protocol for Oblivious Transfer.*
LATINCRYPT 2015. Full version:
[ePrint 2015/267](https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/267) ·
<a href="chou-orlandi-simplest-ot-eprint-2015-267.pdf">PDF</a>

The P-256 base OT under `dpf::iknp` (`base_sender` / `base_receiver`).

**Used in** [Guided tour](@ref tour_iknp)

### AES S-box circuit {#bib_boyar}

Joan Boyar and René Peralta.
*A depth-16 circuit for the AES S-box.*
[ePrint 2011/332](https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/332) ·
<a href="boyar-peralta-aes-sbox-eprint-2011-332.pdf">PDF</a>

The 32-AND SubBytes used by `party/oblivious_hash.hpp`
(`aes_bp::and_count = 32`).

**Used in** [Guided tour](@ref tour_iknp) · [Evaluation](@ref evaluation)

## Comparisons, proofs, and products {#bib_sec_cmp}

### Mixed-mode FSS {#bib_dcf}

Elette Boyle, Nishanth Chandran, Niv Gilboa, Divya Gupta, Yuval Ishai, Nishant Kumar, and Mayank Rathee.
*Function Secret Sharing for Mixed-Mode and Fixed-Point Secure Computation.*
EUROCRYPT 2021, LNCS 12697, pp. 871–900.
[ePrint 2020/1392](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1392) ·
<a href="boyle-chandran-gilboa-gupta-ishai-kumar-rathee-mixed-mode-fss-eprint-2020-1392.pdf">PDF</a>

The distributed comparison function, and Figure 3's one-DCF public interval.

**Used in** [Comparisons](@ref comparisons) · [Evaluation](@ref evaluation) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_dcf)

### Verifiable FSS {#bib_vdpf}

Leo de Castro and Antigoni Polychroniadou.
*Lightweight, Maliciously Secure Verifiable Function Secret Sharing.*
EUROCRYPT 2022, pp. 150–179.
[ePrint 2021/580](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/580) ·
<a href="de-castro-polychroniadou-verifiable-fss-eprint-2021-580.pdf">PDF</a>

The 4λ-bit correction seeds and 2λ-bit proof token, and §4's κ = 3
cuckoo packing. `make_multipoint` follows this GGM multi-point.
S&P 2025 (Boyle, Gilboa, Hamilis, Ishai, and Tu) packs those bucket
keys from a PCG seed. That packing is not a `multipoint_params` tweak
and is not implemented here.

**Used in** [Verifiability](@ref verifiability) · [Multipoint](@ref multipoint_keys) · [Keyword PIR](@ref app_keyword) · [PSI](@ref app_psi)

### ABY2.0 {#bib_aby2}

Arpita Patra, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh, and Hossein Yalame.
*ABY2.0: Improved Mixed-Protocol Secure Two-Party Computation.*
USENIX Security 2021. Full version:
[ePrint 2020/1225](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1225) ·
<a href="patra-schneider-suresh-yalame-aby2-eprint-2020-1225.pdf">PDF</a>

One public reconstruction per newly opened wire.

**Used in** [Beaver triples](@ref beaver_triples) · [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_beaver)

### ABY {#bib_aby}

Daniel Demmler, Thomas Schneider, and Michael Zohner.
*ABY — A Framework for Efficient Mixed-Protocol Secure Two-Party Computation.*
NDSS 2015.
[ePrint 2014/386](https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/386)

Arithmetic / boolean / Yao sharing and conversions.

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime) · [A boolean function of a leaf](@ref yao_leaf)

### Half-gates {#bib_halfgates}

Samee Zahur, Mike Rosulek, and David Evans.
*Two Halves Make a Whole: Reducing Data Transfer in Garbled Circuits using Half Gates.*
EUROCRYPT 2015.
[ePrint 2014/756](https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/756)

Free-XOR AND rows. `yao::session` sends two blocks per AND.

**Used in** [A boolean function of a leaf](@ref yao_leaf) · [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### Garbling gadgets {#bib_garble_gadgets}

Marshall Ball, Tal Malkin, and Mike Rosulek.
*Garbling Gadgets for Boolean and Arithmetic Circuits.*
CCS 2016.
[ePrint 2016/969](https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/969)

Free addition and public scaling in `(Z_m)^k`, and a unary projection of
`m − 1` ciphertexts. A fan-in-`b` symmetric gate is a projection of the sum.
`arith_garble.hpp` is this gadget. The session in `beaver.hpp` stays the
interactive one-open product.

**Used in** [Beaver triples](@ref beaver_triples) · [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### Stacked garbling {#bib_stacked}

David Heath and Vladimir Kolesnikov.
*Stacked Garbling: Garbled Circuit Proportional to Longest Execution Path.*
CRYPTO 2020.
[ePrint 2020/973](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/973)

One XOR-stack of the branch materials. Inactive branches are rebuilt from seeds.

**Used in** [A boolean function of a leaf](@ref yao_leaf)

### One-hot garbling {#bib_onehot}

David Heath and Vladimir Kolesnikov.
*One Hot Garbling.*
CCS 2021.

The same stack over `k` branches. The demux carries the inactive seeds.

**Used in** [A boolean function of a leaf](@ref yao_leaf)

### FLUTE {#bib_flute}

Andreas Brüggemann, Robin Hundt, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh, and Hossein Yalame.
*FLUTE: Fast and Secure Lookup Table Evaluations.*
IEEE S&P 2023.
[ePrint 2023/499](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/499)

A public LUT is a multi-fan-in inner product on ABY2.0 masked bits.
Online cost is two bits per output bit.

**Used in** [Beaver triples](@ref beaver_triples) · [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### ABY3 {#bib_aby3}

Payman Mohassel and Peter Rindal.
*ABY3: A Mixed Protocol Framework for Machine Learning.*
CCS 2018.
[ePrint 2018/403](https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/403)

Honest-majority 3PC, RSS, probabilistic truncation, matrix triples.

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### edaBits / CrypTFlow2 {#bib_edabits}

Daniel Escudero, Satrajit Ghosh, Marcel Keller, Rahul Rachuri, and Peter Scholl.
*Improved Primitives for MPC over Mixed Arithmetic-Binary Circuits.*
CRYPTO 2020.
[ePrint 2020/338](https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/338)

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime) · [A boolean function of a leaf](@ref yao_leaf)

### EzPC {#bib_ezpc}

Nishanth Chandran, Divya Gupta, Aseem Rastogi, Rahul Sharma, and Shardul Tripathi.
*EzPC: Programmable and Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation for Machine Learning.*
EuroS&P 2019.
[ePrint 2017/1109](https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1109)

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### Gilboa multiplication {#bib_gilboa}

Niv Gilboa.
*Two Party RSA Key Generation.*
CRYPTO 1999, LNCS 1666, pp. 116–129.

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### Sharemind {#bib_sharemind}

Dan Bogdanov, Sven Laur, and Jan Willemson.
*Sharemind: A Framework for Fast Privacy-Preserving Computations.*
ESORICS 2008, LNCS 5283, pp. 192–206.

**Used in** [Arithmetic share runtime](@ref arith_runtime)

### Beaver triples {#bib_beaver}

Donald Beaver.
*Efficient Multiparty Protocols Using Circuit Randomization.*
CRYPTO 1991, LNCS 576, pp. 420–432.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46766-1_34">Publisher</a>

The two-opening product triple, not the ABY2.0 session.

**Used in** [Beaver triples](@ref beaver_triples) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_beaver)

### Bit commitment {#bib_naor}

Moni Naor.
*Bit Commitment Using Pseudorandomness.*
Journal of Cryptology 4(2), 1991, pp. 151–158.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00196774">Publisher</a>

`dpf::ppvc` binds each DPF root with this string commitment:
`G(r) XOR A*rho`, under a public matrix `A`.

**Used in** [Programmable vectors](@ref ppvc_manual)

## Three evaluators {#bib_sec_three}

### Three-party DPF {#bib_dpf3}

Guy Zyskind, Avishay Yanai, and Alex "Sandy" Pentland.
*High-Throughput Three-Party DPFs with Applications to ORAM and Digital Currencies.*
[ePrint 2024/1658](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1658) ·
<a href="zyskind-yanai-pentland-three-party-dpf-eprint-2024-1658.pdf">PDF</a>

Figure 3: each evaluator key is a pair of (2,2)-VDPF+ keys.

**Used in** [Multiparty](@ref multiparty) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_dpf3) · [Three-server PIR](@ref app_pir3) · [(2,3) ledger](@ref app_ledger23)

## Grotto {#bib_sec_grotto}

### Grotto {#bib_grotto}

Kyle Storrier, Adithya Vadapalli, Allan Lyons, and Ryan Henry.
*Grotto: Screaming fast (2+1)-PC for Z<sub>2<sup>n</sup></sub> via (2,2)-DPFs.*
[ePrint 2023/108](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/108) ·
<a href="storrier-vadapalli-lyons-henry-grotto-eprint-2023-108.pdf">PDF</a>

Prefix parity along one key, and Appendix D's degree-0 exact tables.
Offset Horner is not that piecewise-polynomial construction.

**Used in** [Grotto](@ref jet_and_ring) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_grotto)

### Wave Hello {#bib_wave}

José Reis, Mehmet Ugurbil, Sameer Wagh, Ryan Henry, and Miguel de Vega.
*Wave Hello to Privacy: Efficient Mixed-Mode MPC using Wavelet Transforms.*
PoPETs 2025(2), pp. 697–718.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2025-0083">Publisher</a> ·
[ePrint 2025/013](https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/013) ·
<a href="reis-ugurbil-wagh-henry-de-vega-wave-hello-eprint-2025-013.pdf">PDF</a>

Equations (7) and (8) are the cleartext Haar and bior(5,3) lookup.
`make_haar_dwt_lut` and `make_bior53_dwt_lut` evaluate those tables.
The online phase pairs Haar with a deterministic Pika truncation and
bior(5,3) with segment parity.

**Used in** [Wavelet lookup tables](@ref dwt_luts) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_grotto)

## Protocols {#bib_sec_protocols}

### Duoram {#bib_duoram}

Adithya Vadapalli, Ryan Henry, and Ian Goldberg.
*Duoram: A Bandwidth-Efficient Distributed ORAM for 2- and 3-Party Computation.*
USENIX Security 2023.
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/presentation/vadapalli">USENIX</a>

The 3-party read and update: unit DPFs at a random index, a cyclic
shift by the opened offset, and a dot product with the memory.

**Used in** [3-party Duoram](@ref app_duoram)

### BitMore {#bib_bitmore}

Syed Mahbub Hafiz and Ryan Henry.
*A Bit More Than a Bit Is More Than a Bit Better.*
PoPETs 2019(4), pp. 112–131.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2019-0061">Publisher</a>

Section 5.2 is the `2^L`-server query: `L` independent 1-bit DPFs,
one key per label bit.

**Used in** [BitMore](@ref app_bitmore)

### Prio {#bib_prio}

Henry Corrigan-Gibbs and Dan Boneh.
*Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics.*
NSDI 2017, pp. 259–282.
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/corrigan-gibbs">USENIX</a>

The frequency count is a one-hot encoding. `dpf::field64` is this
paper's Field64, via libprio.

**Used in** [Prio](@ref app_prio)

### Poplar {#bib_poplar}

Dan Boneh, Elette Boyle, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Niv Gilboa, and Yuval Ishai.
*Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters.*
[ePrint 2021/017](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/017)

The incremental DPF on prefixes of one secret string. EvaluateUntil is
`eval_until`. Mastic is this prefix walk with a weight payload.

**Used in** [Prio](@ref app_prio) · [I-DPF max and k-th](@ref app_idpf_agg) · [Mastic](@ref app_mastic) · [Guided tour](@ref tour_eval)

### Incremental aggregation {#bib_idpfagg}

Nan Cheng, Aikaterini Mitrokotsa, Feng Zhang, and Frank Hartmann.
*Efficient Two-Party Secure Aggregation via Incremental Distributed Point Function.*
[ePrint 2024/1190](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1190)

Communication tracks the bit length of the domain. The max and k-th
walks are `idpf_agg_max` and `idpf_agg_kth`.

**Used in** [I-DPF max and k-th](@ref app_idpf_agg)

### LLAMA {#bib_llama}

Kanav Gupta, Deepak Kumaraswamy, Nishanth Chandran, and Divya Gupta.
*LLAMA: A Low Latency Math Library for Secure Inference.*
[ePrint 2022/793](https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/793)

Offset comparison and spline gates.

**Used in** [LLAMA](@ref app_llama)

### Pika {#bib_pika}

Sameer Wagh.
*Pika: Secure Computation using Function Secret Sharing over Rings.*
PoPETs 2022(4), pp. 351–377.
<a href="https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2022-0113">Publisher</a>

Figure 1 is the unit-DPF table lookup.

**Used in** [Pika](@ref app_pika)

### Express {#bib_express}

Saba Eskandarian, Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Matei Zaharia, and Dan Boneh.
*Express: Lowering the Cost of Metadata-hiding Communication with Cryptographic Privacy.*
USENIX Security 2021, pp. 1775–1792.
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity21/presentation/eskandarian">USENIX</a>

Section 3.1 is the DPF mailbox write.

**Used in** [Express](@ref app_express) · [Sabre](@ref app_sabre)

### PRAC {#bib_prac}

Sajin Sasy, Adithya Vadapalli, and Ian Goldberg.
*PRAC: Round-Efficient 3-Party MPC for Dynamic Data Structures.*
[ePrint 2023/1897](https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1897)

One incremental DPF replaces the `lg n` point keys of a binary search.
A wide leaf updates a heap node and both children.

**Used in** [PRAC](@ref app_prac)

### Splinter {#bib_splinter}

Frank Wang, Catherine Yun, Shafi Goldwasser, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Matei Zaharia.
*Splinter: Practical Private Queries on Public Data.*
NSDI 2017.
<a href="https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi17/technical-sessions/presentation/wang-frank">USENIX</a>

A unit DPF selects one public group. The server dots that selector with
a pre-aggregated column.

**Used in** [Splinter](@ref app_splinter)

### Waldo {#bib_waldo}

Emma Dauterman, Mayank Rathee, Raluca Ada Popa, and Ion Stoica.
*Waldo: A Private Time-Series Database from Function Secret Sharing.*
IEEE S&P 2022.
[ePrint 2021/1661](https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1661)

Append-only unit DPFs, and a comparison inner product for a secret threshold.

**Used in** [Waldo](@ref app_waldo)

### Sabre {#bib_sabre}

Adithya Vadapalli, Kyle Storrier, and Ryan Henry.
*Sabre: Sender-Anonymous Messaging with Fast Audits.*
IEEE S&P 2022.

The write is Express's full-domain add. The audit is a verifiable DPF
proof instead of Express's `fp61` sketch.

**Used in** [Sabre](@ref app_sabre)

### Batched OPRF / PSI {#bib_kkrt}

Vladimir Kolesnikov, Ranjit Kumaresan, Mike Rosulek, and Ni Trieu.
*Efficient Batched Oblivious PRF with Applications to Private Set Intersection.*
ACM CCS 2016.
[ePrint 2016/799](https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/799)

Membership as an oblivious PRF. On this domain the PRF table is public
and each receiver element is a unit DPF.

**Used in** [Private set intersection](@ref app_psi)

### Private SUBLEQ {#bib_subleq}

Jiang and Henry.
MSc thesis, University of Calgary.
A subtract-and-branch instruction for private function evaluation.
The DPF work is a prepaid wildcard unit vector, rotated once the
address is opened.

**Used in** [MPC SUBLEQ](@ref app_subleq)

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