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'''Secure two-party computation''' (2PC) is sub-problem of [[secure multi-party computation]] (MPC) that has received special attention by researchers because of its close relation to many [[cryptographic]] tasks. The goal of 2PC is to create a generic protocol that allows two parties to jointly compute an arbitrary function on their inputs without sharing the value of their inputs with the opposing party. One of the most well known examples of 2PC is [[Yao's Millionaires' Problem|Yao's millionaire problem]], in which two parties, Alice and Bob, are millionaires who wish to determine who is wealtherwealthier without revealing their wealth. Formally, Alice has wealth <math>a</math>, Bob has wealth <math>b</math>, and they wish to compute <math>a \geq b</math> without revealing the values <math>a</math> or <math>b</math>.

[[Andrew Yao|Yao]]'s [[garbled circuit protocol]] for two-party computation <ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Yao | first1 = A. C. | title = Protocols for secure computations | doi = 10.1109/SFCS.1982.38 | pages = 160–164 | year = 1982 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> only provided security against passive adversaries. 2PC protocols that are secure against active adversaries were proposed by Lindell and Pinkas,<ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Lindell | first1 = Y. | last2 = Pinkas | first2 = B. | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-72540-4_4 | title = An Efficient Protocol for Secure Two-Party Computation in the Presence of Malicious Adversaries | volume = 4515 | pages = 52–78 | year = 2007 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> Ishai, Prabhakaran and Sahai <ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Ishai | first1 = Y. | last2 = Prabhakaran | first2 = M. | last3 = Sahai | first3 = A. | title = Founding Cryptography on Oblivious Transfer – Efficiently | doi = 10.1007/978-3-540-85174-5_32 | volume = 5157 | pages = 572–591 | year = 2008 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref> and Nielsen and Orlandi.<ref>{{Cite book | last1 = Nielsen | first1 = J. B. | last2 = Orlandi | first2 = C. | doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-00457-5_22 | chapter = LEGO for Two-Party Secure Computation | title = Theory of Cryptography | series = Lecture Notes in Computer Science | volume = 5444 | pages = 368–386 | year = 2009 | isbn = 978-3-642-00456-8 | pmid = | pmc = }}</ref>