Efficient Privacy-Preserving k-Nearest Neighbor Search

  • Authors:
  • Yinian Qi;Mikhail J. Atallah

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDCS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 The 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give efficient protocols for secure and private k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) search, when the data is distributed between two parties who want to cooperatively compute the answers without revealing to each other their private data. Our protocol for the single-step k-NN search is provably secure and has linear computation and communication complexity. Previous work on this problem had a quadratic complexity, and also leaked information about the parties' inputs. We adapt our techniquesto also solve the general multi-step k-NN search, and describe a specific embodiment of it for the case of sequence data. The protocols and correctness proofs can be extended to suit other privacy-preserving data mining tasks, such as classification and outlier detection.