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

[Thomas P Jakobsen]

>>
>> I vote for MPC. It sounds better when you pronounce it.
>
> I agree, I also mostly skip the "S" since who wants to hear about
> insecure multiparty computation anyway? :-)

There's a lot of interesting insecure multiparty computation going on.
What I mean is that there is a whole research field concerned with
distributed computing.

I guess it's only the crypto-community guys who are trying to do it securely.

So the 'S' might prevent confusion with something else out there in
the non-crypto world. But I havn't heard of anyone else using the term
MPC ... so maybe we should just stick to 'MPC' and let people from
other research fields invent other names for their stuff.

Regards,
Thomas