Performance Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Life Cycle Assessment Using Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols

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IECON 2025 - 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference)

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The growing need for compliance with sustainability regulations force the adoption of sustainable practices, which consequently establish the need for data sharing for the purpose of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), a critical method for evaluating environmental impacts. One key area where these data are essential is in calculating Scope 3 emissions, which can account for up to 90% of an organization's total carbon footprint and require input from its suppliers or service providers. However, the confidential nature of industrial process data poses a hindrance to data sharing throughout the supply chain. To address this issue, this study explores the use of secure multiparty computation (SMPC) to enable privacy-preserving LCA computations. The performance of various SMPC protocols is evaluated in different security models (dishonest and honest majority, malicious, covert, and semi-honest) and computational domains (arithmetic modulo prime and modulo 2k ). The evaluation focuses on key performance factors, such as computation time, data exchange, and communication rounds, using a flat supply chain model. The findings highlight the trade-offs between security, performance, and scalability for different SMPC protocols in the context of LCA. The study demonstrates the feasibility of applying arithmetic circuit-based SMPC for LCA over other protocols.

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Perera, H, Atmojo, U D & Vyatkin, V 2025, Performance Evaluation of Privacy-Preserving Life Cycle Assessment Using Secure Multi-Party Computation Protocols. in IECON 2025 - 51st Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society. IECON Proceedings (Industrial Electronics Conference), IEEE, Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Madrid, Spain, 14/10/2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/IECON58223.2025.11221678