Honest-verifier private disjointness testing without random oracles

  • Authors:
  • Susan Hohenberger;Stephen A. Weis

  • Affiliations:
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA;Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • PET'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present an efficient construction of a private disjointness testing protocol that is secure against malicious provers and honest-but-curious (semi-honest) verifiers, without the use of random oracles. In a completely semi-honest setting, this construction implements a private intersection cardinality protocol. We formally define both private intersection cardinality and private disjointness testing protocols. We prove that our construction is secure under the subgroup decision and subgroup computation assumptions. A major advantage of our construction is that it does not require bilinear groups, random oracles, or non-interactive zero knowledge proofs. Applications of private intersection cardinality and disjointness testing protocols include privacy-preserving data mining and anonymous login systems.