Rational Secure Computation and Ideal Mechanism Design

Speaker: Silvio Micali, MIT Wednesday, November 9, 3:10 PM, Room CAS 313, 685 Commonwealth Ave. We put forward and implement Rational Secure Computation, a stronger notion of secure computation that does not depend on players’ honesty, but solely on their rationality. The key to our result is showing that the ballot box—the venerable device used throughout the world... More