# MPC vs. SFE: Perfect Security in a Unified Corruption Model

## Zuzana Beerliova-Trubiniova and Matthias Fitzi and Martin Hirt and Ueli Maurer and Vassilis Zikas

Secure function evaluation (SFE) allows a set of players to compute
an arbitrary agreed function of their private inputs, even if an
adversary may corrupt some of the players.  Secure multi-party
computation (MPC) is a generalization allowing to perform an
arbitrary on-going (also called reactive or stateful) computation
during which players can receive outputs and provide new inputs at
intermediate stages.

At Crypto~2006, Ishai \emph{et al.} considered mixed threshold
adversaries that either passively corrupt some fixed number of players,
or, alternatively, actively corrupt some (smaller) fixed number of
players, and showed that for certain thresholds, cryptographic SFE is
possible, whereas cryptographic MPC is not.

However, this separation does not occur when one considers
\emph{perfect} security. Actually, past work suggests that no such
separation exists, as all known general protocols for perfectly secure SFE
can also be used for MPC. Also, such a separation does not show up with
\emph{general adversaries}, characterized by a collection of corruptible
subsets of the players, when considering passive and active corruption.

In this paper, we study the most general corruption model where the