What is SPDZ? Part 3: SPDZ specifics

This blog post is the final in a series of three in which we describe what SPDZ is. The first part can be found here , and the second here . In this part, we consider what it is that makes SPDZ SDPZ. SPDZ MPC Using the term SPDZ is perhaps a little misleading. There are actually a few protocols which we call SPDZ because they are really just improvements on the original. As the online phase of SPDZ is already ‘pretty good’, optimisations to the protocol normally involve improving the offli