Privacy-Preserving Cooperative Statistical Analysis

  • Authors:
  • W. Du;M. Atallah

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACSAC '01 Proceedings of the 17th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

The growth of the Internet opens up tremendous opportunitiesfor cooperative computation, where the answer dependson the private inputs of separate entities. Sometimesthese computations may occur between mutually untrustingentities. The problem is trivial if the context allows the conductof these computations by a trusted entity that wouldknow the inputs from all the participants; however if thecontext disallows this then the techniques of secure multipartycomputation become very relevant and can provideuseful solutions.Statistic analysis is a widely used computation in reallife, but the known methods usually require one to know thewhole data set; little work has been conducted to investigatehow statistical analysis could be performed in a cooperativeenvironment, where the participants want to conduct statisticalanalysis on the joint data set, but each participantis concerned about the confidentiality of its own data. Inthis paper we have developed protocols for conducting thestatistic analysis in such kind of cooperative environmentbased on a data perturbation technique and cryptographyprimitives,