International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
Abstract
Privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML) techniques have gained significant popularity in the past years. Those protocols have been widely adopted in many real-world security-sensitive machine learning scenarios, e.g., medical care and finance. In this work, we introduce Aegis~-- a high-performance PPML platform built on top of a maliciously secure 3-PC framework over ring Z2ℓ. In particular, we propose a novel 2-round secure comparison (a.k.a., sign bit extraction) protocol in the preprocessing model. The communication of its semi-honest version is only 25% of the state-of-the-art (SOTA) constant-round semi-honest comparison protocol by Zhou et al.(S&P 2023); both communication and round complexity of its malicious version are approximately 50% of the SOTA (BLAZE) by Patra and Suresh (NDSS 2020), for ℓ=64.
Moreover, the communication of our maliciously secure inner product protocol is merely 3ℓ bits, reducing 50% from the SOTA (Swift) by Koti et al. (USENIX 2021).
Finally, the resulting ReLU and MaxPool PPML protocols outperform the SOTA by 4× in the semi-honest setting and 10× in the malicious setting, respectively