E-PPI: Locator service in information networks with personalized privacy preservation

Yuzhe Tang, Ling Liu, Arun Iyengar, Kisung Lee, Qi Zhang

Research output: Chapter in Book/Entry/PoemConference contribution

13 Scopus citations

Abstract

In emerging information networks, having a privacy pre-serving index (or PPI) is critically important for locating information of interest for data sharing across autonomous providers while preserving privacy. An understudied problem for PPI techniques is how to provide controllable privacy preservation, given the innate difference of privacy concerns regarding different data owners. In this paper we present a personalized privacy preserving index, coined ε-PPI, which guarantees quantitative privacy preservation differentiated by personal identities. We devise a new common-identity attack that breaks existing PPI's and propose an identity-mixing protocol against the attack in ε-PPI. The proposed ε-PPIconstruction protocol is the first without any trusted third party and/or trust relationships between providers. We have implemented our ε-PPI construction protocol by using generic MPC techniques (secure multi-party computation) and optimized the performance to a practical level by minimizing the expensive MPC part.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages186-197
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9781479951680
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 29 2014
Event2014 IEEE 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2014 - Madrid, Spain
Duration: Jun 30 2014Jul 3 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Other

Other2014 IEEE 34th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, ICDCS 2014
Country/TerritorySpain
CityMadrid
Period6/30/147/3/14

Keywords

  • database
  • health informatics
  • information sharing
  • mpc
  • privacy preservation
  • record locator service
  • secret sharing
  • secure computation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'E-PPI: Locator service in information networks with personalized privacy preservation'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this