[viff-devel] Off topic question "multiparty" or "multi-party"

[Tord Ingolf Reistad]

Good

I talked it over with my advisor and him and me agreed on "multiparty", 
but it is good to hear that a native English speaker has complained and 
wanted it to be written as multiparty also.

Like Claudio wrote in his mail I also vote for MPC for the short form.

Martin Geisler wrote:
> Tord Ingolf Reistad <tordr at stud.ntnu.no> writes:
> 
> Hi Tord
> 
>> An off topic question about how to write "Secure Multiparty
>> Compuations", should it be "multiparty" or "multi-party"
>>
>> The front page of VIFF.dk uses "multi-party", but resent papers such
>> as "Multiparty computation goes live" uses the other version. So
>> which should we go for, which should be the standard?
> 
> Excellent question! :-) I have also been annoyed by this...
> 
> Originally I always wrote "multi-party" as you see it on the VIFF
> homepage, but Ivan told me that a native English speaker had
> complained to him about the hyphen (not on the homepage, but in a
> paper by Ivan). So now I'm writing "multiparty" instead.
> 
> I still insist on using "MP" as an abbreviation, just like you would
> abbreviate "database" as "DB" and not just "D". So for me it's "SMPC"
> and not just "SMC".
>