MPF (Mental Poker Framework) a new family of practical and secure mental poker protocols

• Autores: Lerner, Sergio Demián
• Año de publicación: 2010
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: tesis de grado
• Colaborador/a o director/a de tesis: Scolnik, Hugo Daniel
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

Mental Poker (MP) protocols allow multiple parties to securely play a game remotely with a virtual deck of cards using cryptography. A Mental Poker protocol can also be used to execute more complex protocols, such as a secure multi-party boolean circuit evaluation and e-voting. In this thesis we propose a new family of practical and secure mental poker protocols, which includes four competing protocols. For comparison, we have implemented and tested one protocol based on the Pohlig-Hellman symmetric cipher and also we have theoretically evaluated the performance of an elliptic-curve based implementation. Both resulting protocols are efficient enough to achieve real-time performance to play Texas Hold-em over the Internet, for up to ten players, using personal computers and keys of 1024 bits long (PH) and 160 bits long (ECC). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first protocol that achieves this milestone.
Fil: Lerner, Sergio Demián. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina.