International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Abstract
Multidimensional Approximate Agreement considers a setting of n parties, where each party holds a vector in RD as input. The honest parties are required to obtain very close outputs in RD that lie inside the convex hull of their inputs.
Existing Multidimensional Approximate Agreement protocols achieve resilience against tsโ<n/(D+1) corruptions under a synchronous network where messages are delivered within some time ฮ, but become completely insecure as soon as a single message is further delayed. On the other hand, asynchronous solutions do not rely on any delay upper bound, but only achieve resilience up to taโ<n/(D+2) corruptions.
We investigate the feasibility of achieving Multidimensional Approximate Agreement protocols that achieve simultaneously guarantees in both network settings: We want to tolerate tsโ corruptions when the network is synchronous, and also tolerate taโโคtsโ corruptions when the network is asynchronous. We provide a protocol that works as long as (D+1)โ tsโ+taโ<n, and matches several existing lower bounds