Growth of MPC Research

13 January 2017

I led a discussion breakout at the NSF SaTC PIs meeting on Secure Computation: Progress, Methods, Challenges, and Open Questions. To set up the session, I looked at the number of papers in Google scholar that match "secure computation" OR "multi-party computation" (which seems like a fairly good measure of research activity in the area):

There were 1800 MPC papers published in 2015! This means in one year, there are most papers published on MPC than there were from the beginning of time through the end of 2004. Gotta get reading…