Private computation has various applications such as secret voting.
Randomness is essential in order to perform private computations of non trivial functions when the number of players is at least 3. Randomness as a resource has been the subject of extensive research in the past decade. No context found. B. Chor, M. Ger'eb-Graus, and E. Kushilevitz, Private Computations Over the Integers , FOCS 90, pp. 24, No. 2, April 1995, pp.