How Does Bob The Taxgather Find Out Total Profits, Without Revealing Any of Them?
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3 min readAug 20, 2019
The tax authority (Bob) wants to determine the total profit made by all the companies in its region (AliceCo, CharleyCo, DaveInc, EveCom, and FaithCo), but none of the companies wants to release their figures as it will give a commercial advantage to others. So how could we do this?