Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Double Auctions: An application for electricity trading

Double Auctions are mechanisms to trade commodities such as electricity or parts of the wireless spectrum at optimal prices. Bidders and sellers simultaneously submit quantity-price pairs to an auctioneer, denoting the quantity they want to buy or sell at specific prices. The auctioneer aggregates the offers into demand and supply curves to...

Minimally-Interactive Protocols for Privacy-Preserving Set and Multiset Operations Between Multiple Parties

In our increasingly digital society, we are making a growing amount of data available to computers, networks and third parties. As a consequence, our sensitive data is in danger of getting exposed. The field of multi-party computation attempts to mitigate this by studying protocols that enable parties to perform their operations digitally,...