Visible to the public Secure MatDot codes: a secure, distributed matrix multiplication scheme

TitleSecure MatDot codes: a secure, distributed matrix multiplication scheme
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsLópez, Hiram H., Matthews, Gretchen L., Valvo, Daniel
Conference Name2022 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
Date Publishednov
Keywordscodes, coding theory, Complexity theory, composability, compositionality, Conferences, Costs, cryptography, Discrete Fourier transforms, Metrics, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, security, Servers
AbstractThis paper presents secure MatDot codes, a family of evaluation codes that support secure distributed matrix multiplication via a careful selection of evaluation points that exploit the properties of the dual code. We show that the secure MatDot codes provide security against the user by using locally recoverable codes. These new codes complement the recently studied discrete Fourier transform codes for distributed matrix multiplication schemes that also provide security against the user. There are scenarios where the associated costs are the same for both families and instances where the secure MatDot codes offer a lower cost. In addition, the secure MatDot code provides an alternative way to handle the matrix multiplication by identifying the fastest servers in advance. In this way, it can determine a product using fewer servers, specified in advance, than the MatDot codes which achieve the optimal recovery threshold for distributed matrix multiplication schemes.
DOI10.1109/ITW54588.2022.9965839
Citation Keylopez_secure_2022