Secure multiparty computation is a central concept in modern cryptography, but little known outside the field. Here are a variety of basic and advanced perspectives on it that provide a foundation for further study. They cover the very basics of general cryptographic protocols, a short tutorial of zero-knowledge, security and the composition of cryptographic protocols, the BGW (Ben-Or, Goldwasser, and Widgerson) protocol for perfectly-secure multiparty computation, information-theory secure multiparty computation, the IPS (Ishai, Sahai, and Probhakaran) compiler, randomization techniques for security computation, and the complexity of multi-party computation functionalities. There is no index. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)