Distributed Private Data Analysis: Simultaneously Solving How and What

  • Authors:
  • Amos Beimel;Kobbi Nissim;Eran Omri

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel;Department of Computer Science, Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel

  • Venue:
  • CRYPTO 2008 Proceedings of the 28th Annual conference on Cryptology: Advances in Cryptology
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We examine the combination of two directions in the field of privacy concerning computations over distributed private inputs --- secure function evaluation(SFE) and differential privacy. While in both the goal is to privately evaluate some function of the individual inputs, the privacy requirements are significantly different. The general feasibility results for SFE suggest a natural paradigm for implementing differentially private analyses distributively: First choose whatto compute, i.e., a differentially private analysis; Then decide howto compute it, i.e., construct an SFE protocol for this analysis. We initiate an examination whether there are advantages to a paradigm where both decisions are made simultaneously. In particular, we investigate under which accuracy requirements it is beneficial to adapt this paradigm for computing a collection of functions including Binary Sum, Gap Threshold, and Approximate Median queries. Our results yield new separations between the local and global models of computations for private data analysis.