Constant-round private database queries

  • Authors:
  • Nenad Dedic;Payman Mohassel

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Boston University;Department of Computer Science, University of California Davis

  • Venue:
  • ICALP'07 Proceedings of the 34th international conference on Automata, Languages and Programming
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider several private database query problems. The starting point of this work is the element rank problem: the server holds a database of n integers, and the user an integer q; the user wishes to find out how many database records are smaller than q, without revealing q; nothing else about the database should be disclosed. We show a non-interactive communication-efficient solution to this problem. We then use it to solve more complex private database queries: range queries, range queries in plane and higher-dimensional generalizations of element rank. We also show an improved solution to the kth ranked element problem [1], and a solution to private keyword search [9] using weaker assumptions than those of [9]. All our solutions assume semi-honest adversarial behaviour.