The two won an award from the International Organization of Cryptography Researchers IACR for a 2007 study that paved the way for the development of encrypted versions of communication protocols
IACR (International Association for Cryptologic Research) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of the science of cryptology or the science of encryption. This is a branch of mathematics and computer science that deals with information security methods and data communication in an open environment that is accessible to a third party known as a "competitor". The field gathers under it the development and analysis of protocols dealing with various aspects of information security. Every year the organization gives the award Test of Time for articles and studies published before 15 year and still influencing the field.
The article by Prof. Yehuda Lindel and Prof. Benny Pankas that won the prize is "an effective protocol for securing a joint calculation for two parties in the presence of hostile elements", written in 2007. The article describes an effective and feasible method of safe calculation, which allows two entities that have private input values to perform a joint calculation on the same values, while hiding the values themselves. The paper was awarded for proposing the first implementable protocol for active secure versions of a protocol Yao (safe multi-participant calculation), thus paving the way for more practical developments.
To the article An Efficient Protocol for Secure Two-Party Computation in the Presence of Malicious Adversaries
